Education and Psychology of the Exceptional Child - EDUC 390 Resource Guide

List of streaming videos in Films on Demand about education.

This ABC News program profiles two children with autism who receive this intensive form of therapy and discusses the mixed results of it.

sing historical footage and photos in combination with video shot at daycare centers, this program offers an entertaining and enlightening introduction to the major child development theorists, how their theories differ, and how the application of multiple theories can be beneficial to parents, caregivers, and educators. Theorists presented include Sigmund Freud, Maria Montessori, Arnold Gesell, Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Rudolf Dreikurs, Erik Erikson, Abraham Maslow, John Bowlby, B. F. Skinner, Benjamin Spock, Lawrence Kohlberg, T. Berry Brazelton, Diana Baumrind, and Howard Gardner.

To talk with 10-year-old Dillon Kelley, it is not readily apparent that he has a form of mental retardation. But that does not stop his 4th-grade classmates, who discern that he is unlike them without understanding why, from teasing and shunning him. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel compassionately presents Dillon's story as an opportunity to better understand the genetic disorder called Fragile X syndrome.

This video describes a wide range of special needs symptoms from minor balance and movement problems to major or grand-mal seizures.

This is the story of an eight-year-old boy with Down syndrome who was part of a battle over "inclusion," the practice of placing mentally or physically challenged students in regular classrooms.

In this classic four-part series, Sally L. Smith, founder of the renowned Lab School of Washington, distills her classroom and research findings into four tutorials that educators can use to guide their LD students to higher academic achievement. Professor Smith directed American University’s master’s degree program in special education and is the author of numerous books, including No Easy Answers: The Learning Disabled Child at Home and at School.

This down-to-earth program shares the hard-won experiences of an award-winning special ed teacher. Speaking with an engaging mix of candor, earnestness, and passion, he explains how personal introspection, collaboration with other staff members, promoting trust, structuring the academic environment, instilling success, and developing teacher/student interdependence have transformed his classroom into a place where students thrive.

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