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A Day So Beautiful - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB531605

The alarm buzzer sounds at 6 am, rousing a young man from a deep sleep. He examines his face in the...

A Gift For Grandma: Mia

Sardine Productions SAR016

Mia wants to help her grandmother go faster by fixing her wheelchair. With help from Marty, they...

A Gift for Kate - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526576

Kate is a recently discharged mental patient who now lives in a run-down halfway house. The weekly...

A Map of the Mind Fields: Managing Adolescent Psychosis - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB529969

Until recently a diagnosis of psychosis was seen as the end to normal life. With onset occurring...

A Mind of Your Own - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528438

It is estimated that in every Canadian classroom, there are two or three kids affected by a...

A Place in the World - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527997

Martin Langlois is 22 and autistic. His devoted parents cannot care for him much longer, so they...

All About Kids - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527972

Quebec Aquarium: School children see marine life at close range. Children's Play Therapy: Games and...

Amedeo Modigliani: Art With Mati and Dada Series

HG Distribution HG0034

Moving to another apartment can be very tiresome; but Dada uses his magic to help the great Italian...

AutismVision: Creating Classroom Connections for Children with...

Human Relations Media 600451

AutismVision: Creating Classroom Connections for Children with Autism is a video presentation to...

Basic Literary Terms (Vol. 5): Theme, Atmosphere, Foreshadowing...

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0131

Explore essential literary terms, such as theme, atmosphere, foreshadowing, diction and anaphora...

Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524329

Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26...

Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB529569

Statistics reveal that depression in children and youth is on the rise. In fact, it has increased...

Blindness - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520706

The story of a man who lost his sight during the best years of his life. Filmed with the help of...

Canada Vignettes: Erik Davidson - Mechanic - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521516

A man who rebuilds and restores antique cars recounts how he was blinded in the Halifax harbour...

Canada Vignettes: Physiotherapist - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524077

How a young woman physiotherapist spends much time, and a great deal of patience and care, helping...

Conspiracy of Silence - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528483

A dramatic film about generational differences that almost split a family apart. Anna, fifteen...

Danny and Nicky - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522794

A comparison of the care of two boys with Down syndrome, the one living at home with brothers and...

David with F.A.S. - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526692

David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is...

Deciphering Dyslexia - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543138

The trials and triumphs of four people facing a lifelong struggle with learning. Dyslexia is the...

Decoding Autism: Canada AM

CTV CTV472

In Canada AM's newest 5-part program, two autism experts discuss early diagnosis and intervention...

Depressive States: Part 1 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524464

A farmer who has suffered three nervous breakdowns is interviewed in the morning and again in the...

Depressive States: Part 2 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520625

Two women patients are interviewed. The first one, a happy, active housewife, was suddenly struck...

Discussions in Bioethics: If You Want a Girl Like Me - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526226

One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics...

Ellen's Story - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527390

Ellen Szita's childhood education never uncovered the fact that she had a learning disability and...

Eternal Children - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528356

Children who through heredity, brain injury or various other causes are not equipped to keep pace...

Everybody's Handicapped - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522208

A National Employment Service placement officer learns that in the man who is physically disabled...

Everyone's Business - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521213

The Churchill Park Greenhouse Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is a small produce business...

Eye Witness No. 11 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520877

Classroom on Rails: In Ontario forests north of Lake Superior, a school car is dropped off at a...

Eye Witness No. 17 - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525299

Modern Magic with Liquid Air: A physics lecture becomes a three-ring circus when professor John...

Feelings of Depression - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526553

How and why feelings of depression carry over from childhood to overshadow adulthood are explained...

Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB529593

Anxiety motivates us to get things done, but for some people, anxiety is not a driver. For many...

First Steps (1947) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB556336

The film documents the treatment of crippled children in India. Using improvised equipment...

First Steps (1976) - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521846

Mental disabilities affect one out of every hundred children in Canada. The film introduces us to...

Fixing My Brain

Matter of Fact Media MFM004

FIXING MY BRAIN, a one-hour documentary that tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a...

Flight from Darkness - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541783

Percy Paul began his journey in a remote Dene community in northern Saskatchewan, a place where far...

Folie à deux - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521865

"Folie à deux" is a type of madness which affects one person and is communicated to another when...

Has Anybody Seen My Umbrella? - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521661

The story of a prince who leaves school after his grade one graduation thinking he knows all there...

Henri Rousseau: Art With Mati and Dada Series

HG Distribution HG0021

With so many paintings of jungles and forests, Rousseau should have been a tireless traveler! Mati...

I'll Find a Way - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524445

When nine-year-old Nadia is allowed to attend a regular school, she knows the kids will tease her...

Listen Listen Listen - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526616

This film is about a controversial educational community in southwestern Ontario where people of...

Manic State - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522126

A woman, who denies being ill, talks and gesticulates in a highly animated manner. Too much talking...

Mario - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525010

Set in the picturesque Magdalen Islands of Québec, Mario is a story of complicity between a...

Mental Patients' Association - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524224

One of eight Canadians will at some time in their lives be admitted to a mental institution. This...

Mothers of Courage - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522646

It's ten-year-old Bethany's school concert, and her parents are watching anxiously. Bethany may...

Mr. Symbol Man - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526446

"Blissymbols" are giving children without speech a joyous new means of communication. This film...

My Friends Call Me Tony - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525544

The film is about a ten-year-old boy who can distinguish only light from shadow. Despite this...

Nicholas - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525952

Nicholas recounts the story of how the parents of a severely disabled child in a fishing village in...

No Place to Go - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521521

Since the early 1960s, more and more psychiatric institutions have downsized and released their...

OCD: The War Inside - DVD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525559

They seem like ordinary people. They have no physical disabilities and appear as functional as the...

On The Brink: W5

CTV CTV417

They are frustrated. They are angry. They are going broke. They are parents who insist governments...

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