Learning Disabilities
65 title(s) found.A Day So Beautiful - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB531605The alarm buzzer sounds at 6 am, rousing a young man from a deep sleep. He examines his face in the...
A Gift for Kate - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526576Kate 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 NFB529969Until 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 NFB528438It 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 NFB527997Martin 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 NFB527972Quebec Aquarium: School children see marine life at close range. Children's Play Therapy: Games and...
Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524329Luke 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 NFB529569Statistics reveal that depression in children and youth is on the rise. In fact, it has increased...
Blindness - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520706The 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 NFB521516A 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 NFB524077How 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 NFB528483A dramatic film about generational differences that almost split a family apart. Anna, fifteen...
Danny and Nicky - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522794A 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 NFB526692David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is...
Deciphering Dyslexia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543138The trials and triumphs of four people facing a lifelong struggle with learning. Dyslexia is the...
Depressive States: Part 1 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524464A 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 NFB520625Two 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 NFB526226One 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 NFB527390Ellen Szita's childhood education never uncovered the fact that she had a learning disability and...
Eternal Children - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528356Children who through heredity, brain injury or various other causes are not equipped to keep pace...
Everybody's Handicapped - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522208A National Employment Service placement officer learns that in the man who is physically disabled...
Everyone's Business - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521213The Churchill Park Greenhouse Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is a small produce business...
Eye Witness No. 11 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520877Classroom 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 NFB525299Modern Magic with Liquid Air: A physics lecture becomes a three-ring circus when professor John...
Feelings of Depression - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526553How 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 NFB529593Anxiety 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 NFB556336The film documents the treatment of crippled children in India. Using improvised equipment...
First Steps (1976) - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521846Mental disabilities affect one out of every hundred children in Canada. The film introduces us to...
Flight from Darkness - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB541783Percy 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 NFB521661The story of a prince who leaves school after his grade one graduation thinking he knows all there...
I'll Find a Way - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524445When 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 NFB526616This film is about a controversial educational community in southwestern Ontario where people of...
Manic State - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522126A woman, who denies being ill, talks and gesticulates in a highly animated manner. Too much talking...
Mario - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525010Set in the picturesque Magdalen Islands of Québec, Mario is a story of complicity between a...
Mental Patients' Association - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524224One 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 NFB522646It'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 NFB525544The film is about a ten-year-old boy who can distinguish only light from shadow. Despite this...
Nicholas - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525952Nicholas 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 NFB521521Since the early 1960s, more and more psychiatric institutions have downsized and released their...
OCD: The War Inside - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525559They seem like ordinary people. They have no physical disabilities and appear as functional as the...
Organic Reaction Type - Senile - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528270A woman and a man are interviewed singly. They both show signs of confusion, loss of memory...
Out of Silence - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525064A film showing how the Montréal Oral School for the Deaf employs teaching methods that draw...
Over-Dependency - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526207The case history of a man whose life is crippled by behaviour patterns carried over from a...
Paranoid Conditions - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522905Two patients are interviewed. The first woman seems fairly normal except when she refers to the...
Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523900When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his...
Post Partum Depression - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524874Statistics show that nearly twenty percent of new mothers are affected by post partum depression, a...
Schizophrenia: Catatonic Type - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527164Three patients suffering from stuporous catatonia sit with bowed heads before the camera. Only one...
Schizophrenia: Hebephrenic Type - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526423Since his hospitalization thirteen years ago, this patient has shifted from the catatonic to the...