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ABC News Primetime Aspergers Syndrome
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Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
The private worlds of autism 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Primetime's documentary of 3 boys with aspergers syndrom is a great overview of the struggles both the persons with aspergers and their families deal with on a daily basis. Each boy has an obsession with something: one with trains, one with washers and dryers, and one with game shows. If only others could understand the importance of these things, too!
The show realistically portrays how the boys and their parents have had to adjust to the challenges that come with aspergers, particularly the difficulties in social situations, and what they are doing to ensure that they do not lose touch with the real world. This video increases anyone's understanding of the world of aspergers.
Thank you for this!
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ABC News reports on Aspergers Syndrome, a debilitating, life-long, neurological disorder with similarities to autism. Children with Aspergers have intense obsessions, great difficulty carrying on normal conversations or feeling emotions. Their obsession is a symptom of the unique disorder. They're highly intelligent but their brains are wired differently. They can't read faces if someone's sad or angry, so that leaves them alone, isolated. ABC News spends time with kids struggling to understand the language of life.This "Primetime" show contains the following additional stories:
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ABC News Primetime Deaf Kids
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Despite being profoundly hearing impaired, students at the Tucker-Maxon Oral School in Portland, Oregon learned to speak, thanks in part to a peculiar teacher in their school. He has no hair, no ears, and never calls in sick. The kids love him. His name is Baldi. Baldi is a revolutionary tutor; an animated guide for learning how to speak. His lip, tongue and jaw movements are a near-perfect copy of a human's. By mimicking Baldi, the children learn how to actually form their words.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Primetime Freedom Writers
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Average rating: 5.0 of 5
perfect for the classroom 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.
I use the movie in my classroom of 10th graders and we do a major writing project after we watch it. THis edition shows the real teacher and the real kids when they were doing the action and it even inspires my kids more. Great information too.
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A teacher, Erin Gruwell, finds a unique way to inspire her students to learn and who dramatically changed their lives, from hopelessness and despair to a future of limitless possibilities. This "Primetime" show also contains the following additional story: Buyer BewareThis product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Primetime Juvenile Correction Facilities
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Across the country, some 104,000 troubled teens are locked up in juvenile correction facilities. ABC News was granted unprecedented access to teens at Adobe Mountain School for boys and Black Canyon School for girls in Arizona. The purpose of these "safe schools" is to reform not punish. Still, conditions inside are tough and harsh and is usually the teens last shot to change their ways.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Primetime The Secret Lives of Teens
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What is life really like for today's teenagers? More specifically, what are they saying - and doing - about their sex lives? In collaboration with Seventeen Magazine, ABC News holds a sleepover in which 14 girls from around the country volunteer to spend a night together talking about intimate details of their lives - including their first sexual experiences. The open conversation among the young strangers reveals just how harsh and fast the world of teen sex is today. Next ABC News examines the phenomenon of MySpace.com, and how kids chatting to strangers on the Internet can have serious consequences. The site is one of the hottest online sites where kids go to hang out these days. People make their own web page with the goal of connecting to others with similar interests. My Space can be a wholesome place to share pictures and stories, but is it also one-stop shopping for sex and drugs? Lastly, a story of how a first love turns into psychotic love -- when a boyfriend goes over the edge. ABC News looks at how relationships among teens can become as life-threatening as any adult abusive relationship. Meet a young woman who was stabbed in the back with an eight-inch knife by a young man who couldn't bear the fact that she was breaking up with him. But she lives to tell the tale, and wants to warn others that young love isn't always as innocent as it seems.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
ABC News Primetime Hidden Camera Experiment. What Would You Do?
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How do we react - or choose not to act -- when we see someone being threatened or victimized? In an hidden camera experiment, ABC News takes a look at who gets involved and who doesn't in various sticky situations, and whether men or women are more likely to intervene. The choices people make are surprising, whether they witness someone shoplifting at a local shop or observe an argument between a couple on the brink of a violent confrontation. We all like to think we'd do "the right thing," but what exactly is the right thing and what causes some of us to do something and others look the other way? Correspondent: John Quinones
ABC News Primetime Lying
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ABC News Primetime Ethical Dilemmas: What Would You Do?
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What would you do if you saw bullies ganging up on an innocent kid or a couple fighting in the park -- the boyfriend on the verge of physically harming the woman? "Primetime" conducts a hidden camera tests to see what people do when confronted with ethical dilemmas that force them to act or not. Whether walking right by or getting involved in these scenarios, the reactions people have are fascinating. "Primetime" also takes the experiment further, looking at whether perception influences people's reactions. Will dressing the bullies tougher or changing the race of the fighting couple affect how people respond? John Quinones reports. Then: How will passengers handle a taxi driver who goes on an extensive racist rant filled with hateful ethnic slurs... will they tell him to stop, keep quiet, or maybe even join in? What some people think and openly say about race in America is surprising, including a woman who says all Arabs should be sent back to Ali Baba and a man who talks about using Mexicans and Puerto Ricans for target practice. What's more intriguing is that many of the passengers agree to talk with John Quinones and be on camera. Over the four-day experiment, some people will challenge the cab driver's racism, but will any of them tell him to stop or get out of the car?
ABC News Primetime Nuclear Security Lapses
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A four-month ABC News investigation found gaping security holes at many of the little-known nuclear research reactors operating on 25 college campuses across the country. Among the findings: unmanned guard booths, a guard who appeared to be asleep, unlocked building doors and, in a number of cases, guided tours that provided easy access to control rooms and reactor pools that hold radioactive fuel. Officials at the NRC acknowledged that in a worst-case scenario, an act of sabotage at a campus nuclear reactor could, in effect, turn a facility into a so-called "dirty bomb."
ABC News Primetime Randy Weaver: Ruby Ridge
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ABC News takes viewers to an American killing ground known as Ruby Ridge. Randy Weaver, who saw his family torn apart there, retraces for the first time, the ground where his son, his wife and a federal marshal died. You will see the place from which the FBI stalked the Weavers. ABC News allows viewers to judge whether Randy Weaver, who was wanted on weapons charges, and his family deserved the treatment they received from two federal agencies most Americans think of as their protectors, but which the Weavers now think of as their executioners.This "Primetime" show contains the following additional stories:
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