Hi5!Hope you enjoyed April's Autism Awareness Month.
Here are some movies to keep you sharing all year long...
"Wretches & Jabberers"
{an AMC Theatres & Autism Speaks 'Sensory-Friendly Film' viewing}
The film, “Wretches & Jabberers,” follows Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both of whom have autism and communicate primarily through typing as they travel the globe in an effort to alter people’s attitudes about disability.(disabilityscoop.com) Disability Scoop article
Image via Wikipedia“Autism is a World,”
The filmmaker Gerardine Wurzburb won a 1993 Academy Award for “Educating Peter,” a documentary about the inclusion of a student with Down syndrome, and was nominated in 2005 for “Autism is a World,” a film about a woman living with the developmental disability.“Wretches & Jabberers is Wurzburb latest release about 'uniquely different' people living on the autism spectrum.
ENJOY!
Related articles
- For Those With Autism, Documentary Offers New Hope (abcnews.go.com)
- You: Silent no more: New film on autism, unlikely "stars" spread gospel of optimism (washingtonpost.com)
- Movie Review | 'Wretches & Jabberers': Traveling With Autism (movies.nytimes.com)
- Autism Awareness Month (dickstersrandomthoughts.com)
- Autism documentary entertains rather than preaches (reuters.com)
- ArtsBeat: AMC to Give Autism Film National Exposure (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
- EnjoyHi5!Autism (snippets)
- "Planning Succesful Events!"
- EnjoyHi5Autism (audio posts)
- EnjoyHi5Autism (Twitter)
- Enjoy Hi Autism (MySpace blog)
- Enjoying the Hi-5s of Autism - A Family Experience (Facebook)
- Enjoying Autism in Cinema
- Enjoying Autism In Reading Resources
- Autism demands world's collective attention: UN chief (news.bioscholar.com)
- Autism demands world's collective attention: UN chief (news.bioscholar.com)
