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491. The exceptional child. [Mentally retarded: trainable] (28:56)

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Mentally retarded: trainable; Mentally handicapped: trainable; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Explores the challenges faced by children with severe intellectual disabilities, highlighting their interactions with family, neighbors, and educational environments. Through dramatizations and cla...

492. The exceptional child. [Speech disorders: stuttering] (29:02)

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Speech disorders: stuttering; Exceptional child; Speech handicapped child: stu...
Date:
1959
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Examines the challenges faced by children who stutter, explaining how stuttering patterns develop and the social difficulties that may result. Through interviews, filmed sequences, and dramatizatio...

493. The exceptional child. [The auditorially-handicapped child: the deaf] (29:08)

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Auditorially-handicapped chil...; Deaf; Exceptional child
Date:
1957
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Examines the challenges faced by children who are deaf and defines deafness as the inability to hear speech. This episode presents film sequences, demonstrations, and interviews that illustrate tea...

494. The exceptional child. [The epileptic child] (29:10)

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Epileptic child; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Discusses the special problems confronting the child with epilepsy and tells how ignorance, superstitions, and half-truths add to the complexity of providing wholesome relationships for the epilept...

495. The exceptional child. [The gifted child] (29:06)

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Gifted child; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Explores the unique challenges faced by gifted children, highlighting how their intellectual, emotional, and physical development may differ from others. Through filmed sequences and dramatizations...

496. The exceptional child. [The visually handicapped child: the blind] (28:47)

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Visually handicapped child: t...; Blind; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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This episode explores the unique challenges faced by children who are blind and the support they need to grow and build relationships. It highlights both the limitations caused by blindness and the...

497. The exceptional child. [The visually handicapped child: the partially sighted] (28:55)

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Visually handicapped child: t...; Partially sighted; Exceptional child
Date:
1959
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Discusses the special problems of the child with defective vision, pointing out the many degrees of partial-sightedness and the implications of each. Stresses the role of the home, school, and comm...

499. The film makers : King Vidor (28:53)

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King Vidor
Date:
1970
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King Vidor, Hollywood director of The big parade, War and peace, Solomon and Sheba, and the silent film Our daily bread, recalls Hollywood landmarks of a bygone era and talks about his directing te...

500. The Food Crisis (58:45)

Date:
1966
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Contrasts the areas of the world where there is an abundance of food with the areas where starvation is a way of life, and documents the pattern which has led to the lack of an adequate food supply...