Videos/DVDs Available for Viewing Through the Early Childhood Direction Center
Please note that we cannot loan these DVDs or videos, but we are happy to bring them to sites within our six counties or invite people to our office in Binghamton for viewing.
| Title | Length of Time | Video Format | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Gimp | 50 minutes | DVD | Triumph over adversity, the story of Dan Keplinger, born with CP; filmed over 13 years, tracing his transitions from special school to regular high school and on to college and a career as a painter. |
| At the Gates of Autism, Emerging into Life | 59 minutes | DVD | Dr. Temple Grandin talks about her childhood, the motivations behind behavior, growing up with autism, etc. |
| Dr. Temple Grandin on Visual Thinking, Sensory Challenges, Careers, Medications | About 60 minutes | DVD | Dealing with obstacles and finding successful strategies when living with autism. |
| Fred’s Story | 28 minutes | VHS | Fred lived for decades in an institution; this is his story, how he left and is now living in the community. |
| A Fair Chance, Parents with Developmental Disabilities | 53 minutes | DVD | A look inside the lives of six parents with developmental disabilities, factors that help them succeed and factors that contribute to the loss of their children. |
| Ed Roberts, His Words, His Vision | 12-15 minutes | DVD | Speech given by founder of Independent Living movement in California. |
| Lou Brown, Unplugged | 3 disc series, DVD | Prof. Emer. from Univ. of Wisconsin, wonderful story teller, about struggles, absurdities, barriers, joys, instructional practices, preparing students with disabilities for life and work in the real world. | |
| The Happiest Baby on the Block | 128 minutes | DVD | Dr. Harvey Karp’s techniques for settling babies. |
| The Happiest Toddler on the Block | 69 minutes | DVD | Dr. Karp’s techniques with toddlers. |
| Down Syndrome, The First 18 Mo. | 108 minutes | DVD | Will Schermerhorn’s video on newborns, health concerns, therapies, new expectations. |
| Discovery, Pathways to Better Speech | 81 minutes | DVD | Communication milestones, methods, etc. for children with Down Syndrome; produced by W. Schermerhorn. |
| Successfully Parenting Your Baby with Special Needs, Birth - 3 | VHS | Hope and support for parents, explains EI, IFSPs, Transitions, etc. | |
| Successfully Educating Preschoolers with Special Needs, Ages 21/2 - 5 | 30 minutes | VHS | For families – information about IDEA, evaluations, choosing a preschool, related services, transition to kindergarten. |
| Song of Our Children | 58 minutes | DVD | Documentary about Inclusive Education, new ways of thinking and teaching. |
| Counseling Families | About 45 minutes | DVD | Recorded conversation among STIC's own Charlie Kramer, MSW, Jo Anne Novicky, MSC, and Sue Lozinak, parent and ECDC I&R Coordinator, about how to counsel families who have just received a disability diagnosis. |
| Daycare Thoughts | About 12 minutes | DVD | Reflections of 2 adults with disabilities and their day care experiences when younger. |
| Together We’re Better | 3 VHS tapes | Each about an hour long | Documenting major workshop in Chicago with Marsha Forrest, Jack Pearpoint, Judith Snow on Inclusion strategies, MAPS, PATH. |
| Inclusion Education; Rediscovering our Right to Belong | VHS | 120 minutes | Norman Kunc, on valuing and working with diversity of people. |
| New Students, New Questions | VHS | 100 minutes | Norman Kunc, on fair and appropriate evaluations, ideas for supporting students with difficult behavior, etc. |
| Challenging Behaviors in Young Children | 1 hour | VHS | On-site visit to classrooms, ideas on working through difficult behavior situations. |
| The Story of the Stranger | DVD, VHS | Dealing with bias, Norman Kunc. | |
| Raising Resilient Children | 70 minutes | VHS | Psychologists Sam Goldstein and Robert Brookes on fostering resiliency in children. |
| High Stakes Testing and the Legal Pitfalls Relating to Students with Disabilities | DVD | Educational advice. | |
| No Child with a Disability Left Behind | Video CD, Resource Disc | Reed Martin, educational advice. | |
| Children at Play, Changing the World | Audio CD | Conversation with Rosario Villasana-Ruiz, on child development, letting children be children, Waldorf educational philosophies | |
| This American Life: A Better Mousetrap | Audio CD | Includes the story of the Mom who “didn’t tell” her child or the school about her child’s disability until he was a teen. | |
| Sleeping Beauty | 30 minutes | VHS | Rita Corey tells the fairy tale story in American Sign Language. |
| What Can Baby Hear? | 30 minutes | VHS | Auditory testing and interventions for infants with multiple disabilities. |
| Families with Deaf Children | 30 minutes | VHS | Parents talking with parents about having children who are deaf. |
| Families with Hard of Hearing Children | 30 minutes | VHS | Parents and professionals discuss needs of children who are hard of hearing. |
| Conversations for Three, Communicating through Interpreters | 60 minutes | VHS | Culturally sensitive for training service providers and interpreters in team building with families. |
| ASL Basics for Hearing Parents of Deaf Children | 2 video set, VHS | ||
| See n Sign I and II | 50 minutes | DVD | American Sign Language for young children. |
| See n Sign | VHS | Same as above. | |
| Come Sign with Us | 76 minutes | VHS | Beginning sign language for children. |
| American Sign Language | 2 DVD set, CD-ROM of ASL Dictionary | ||
| Sign Language for Everyone | DVD, English and Spanish | 300 signs, 12 professional deaf actors, 20 locations. | |
| Baby Einstein, My First Signs | DVD | Intro to Sign Language. | |
| We Sign | DVD, English and Spanish | For use with infants and toddlers. | |
| Sign With Me | VHS | Intro to Sign Language. | |
| A Credo of Support | 4 minutes | VHS | Video set to music about common perceptions and misperceptions of disability and support (note, we have another copy that is accessible for viewers that have visual impairments). |
| We’re Not Stupid | 14 minutes | VHS | Living with learning differences. |
| Making Dreams Happen | 45 minutes | VHS | Facilitating MAPS process. |
| How Difficult Can This Be? | |||
| F.A.T. City | DVD | Richard Lavoie’s workshop on Learning Disabilities awareness– very eye opening – what it is like to have LD. | |
| Learning Disabilities and Social Skills | DVD | ||
| Last One Picked, First One Picked On | Another Richard Lavoie video. | ||
| The Inclusion Series: Choices | 30 minutes | DVD | Stories of students, their families, teachers – focus on Cami, age 3; Erin, age 5; Jackie, age 9; and Joan; age 19. |
| The Inclusion Series: Families, Friends, Futures | 24 minutes | DVD | Betsy, age 12 and Larissa, age 3. |
| The Inclusion Series: Step by Step, Heather’s Story | 30 minutes | DVD | 2 year study of life of young girl with DS, following her from special ed. school to regular classroom. |
| The Inclusion Series: Inclusion High | 20 minutes | DVD | Documentary on Mather High, high school in Chicago, a “community symphony” of students from 59 countries, urban area, and disability inclusive. |