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A CREDO FOR SUPPORT
(ORIGINAL SPOKEN VERSION)
This powerful 5 minute video set to music offers a series of suggestions for people who care about and support someone with a disability. It prompts viewers to question the common perceptions of disability, professionalism, and support. Designed for use in presentations, in service, staff training, and orientation programs, this video can be a provocative catalyst for a dialogue on these issues.


A CREDO FOR SUPPORT
(PEOPLE FIRST VERSION)
A Credo for Support spoken by members of San Luis Obispo People First.


OF ALL PEOPLE

nORM AT 21
A FINE LINE
2 DOCUMENTARIES MADE ABOUT NORMAN KUNC
(Emma made me put them up here!)

OF ALL PEOPLE (1972 - 30 minutes)
A CBC documentary made about Norman Kunc when he was 15 years old.




A FINE LINE (1978 - 60 minute)
A documentary about two men with cerebral palsy: Norman Kunc (at 21) and John Kellermen.



WHEN THE MOON COME UP
Norman Kunc was born with cerebral palsy,  Although the doctors recommended that he be institutionalized, Norman's parents ignored their advice and took him home.  Norman has received a Masters of Science in Family Therapy and become a well-known disability rights advocate, yet he has always been haunted by what his life might have been like had his parents followed the doctors' advice.  - In a collage of powerful images set to poignant music, Norman Kunc expresses the terror of almost having been incarcerated for life.


EUTHANASIA BLUES
Many disability rights activists have serious concerns about legalizing euthanasia. Norman Kunc put these concerns into a blues song.


INCLUDING SAMUEL
(10 min Trailer)

Photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about inclusion before he had his son Samuel seven years ago. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. Habib’s documentary film Including Samuel examines the educational and social inclusion of youth with disabilities as a civil rights issue.



PUDDLES TO PRIDE

"From puddles to PRIDE," is a proclamation, shouted out on the streets of Chicago, at the first every Disability Pride Parade on July 18, 2004. On that street, the author says, "there are no puddles of shame-only sunshine-and pride!" Experience this joyful event that will change the perspectives of those who participate and those who watch from the sidelines.

www.danceofpartnership.com



ADAPT - AN OVERVIEW

ADAPT is a national organization that has fought for decades for the rights of disabled people. This includes protesting Greyhound to put lifts on busses, congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and now they continue to fight. Right now ADAPT is fighting for the money that is spent to keep people in nursing homes to follow the person into society. Real voices, Real Choices.



ADAPT - AN OVERVIEW

News report of ADAPT's protest of health care policy.


IN MY LANGUAGE

Amanda Baggs, a woman with autism, gives a riveting account on what it is like to have autism.



ON BEING CONSIDERED RETARDED
Amanda Baggs, a woman with autism, explores the meaning and prejudice that underlies the word, "retarded."


EVELYN GLENNIE

Evelyn Glennie is widely recognized as the world's premiere classical percussionist. She is also profoundly deaf. Glennie talks about the difference between playing music and being a musician as well as how she learned to "listen through her body."



WELCOME TO HOLLAND
A video portrayal of Emily Kingsley's poem on what it is like to have a child with a disability.

   
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