Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

Get an inside look at autism in Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts. In this 62-minute DVD, art programs and therapies are explored for helping children on the spectrum to succeed. Music, dance, art, and animation are offered as ways for kids to connect with other people. Creative activities seem to help stimulate speech and language, encourage social interaction with others, and build self-esteem in children with limited skills in these areas. Eight portraits of individuals with autism are seen as this movie celebrates their talents and provides a platform for them to talk about their obstacles and their successes. Interviews with the children are offered along with experts in the field of autism such as Dr. Temple Grandin; Dr. Stephen Shore; Ed Asner, autism spokesman; Joanne Lara, founder, Autism Movement Therapy, and more.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Last month, the Institute’s Indiana Resource Center for Autism and Center on Community Living and Careers, along with WTIU Bloomington and the City of Bloomington, sponsored a viewing of the documentary film Autism in Love. CeDIR now has a copy of this video in the library to check out. The film follows four people with ASD who share their frustrations, pain, and successes in trying to find, date, love, and connect to someone understands and appreciates them.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Ruby's Studio: The Feelings Show

In The feelings show, magical host, Ruby, invites kids into her beautiful art studio for a day of fun and learning through engaging animation, art projects and original music. Children will explore ways to identify, express and move through their feelings as Ruby offers them fun, creative tools to benefit their everyday lives.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Be Safe

In BE SAFE The Movie, actors with autism and related disabilities interact with real police officers, modeling safe words and actions. Lessons in the Companion Curriculum offer materials to reach a wide range of learners.

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We all fit

"A K-5th grade autism peer sensitivity and bullying prevention video."

With a run-time of 15 minutes plus a reinforcing 4-minute music video by The Figureheads, We ALL Fit was written with elementary students in mind, but contains information about autism and social emotional lessons valuable to people of any age.

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Choosing To Be a GFF [Good Friend Forever]

A cutting-edge film specifically by and for middle-schoolers. Choosing To Be a GFF [Good Friend Forever] is loaded with positive social emotional themes for autism awareness and peer acceptance. Symptoms of autism are explained by seven 12- to 15-year-old students with ASD in their real-life accounts. Friends and siblings of students with ASDs also lend their voices, making the video a powerful and effective anti-bullying tool. -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Siblings of autism: The challenge and the hope

Siblings of Autism is a 30 minute DVD that explores the relationships between kids who have autism and their siblings. Their lives are deeply affected as they may struggle with the feelings of frustration, inadequacy and depression, and yet they learn to balance these challenges with caretaking, acceptance and hope. -from the publisher

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The Rhythm Tree

WANT TO OPEN UP YOUR CHILD'S WORLD THROUGH MUSIC? The Rhythm Tree DVD and Music Therapy Kit is perfect for parents, educators and therapists. Develop critical skills in a fun and playful way (no musical abilities required). It will add music and success to any autism therapy or special needs program.

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Alone in a Crowded Room

From Films Media Group comes Alone in a Crowded Room, a film that highlights adults with ASD discussing how other people perceive them.

"This film explores the line between ability and disability and goes beyond the preconceptions of one of the most mysterious and challenging disorders of our time. It tells the stories of love, family, work and friendship of four autistic adults." -Publisher

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Autism at Camp

While parents of autistic children are increasingly looking for camp experiences for their children, they are usually unsure about how the autistic child might function in a camp environment. Autism at Camp details tools that can be used to effectively assess autistic children who could benefit from camp and outlines strategies for working with them during their camp experience.

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The Autism Enigma

The Autism Enigma looks at the progress of an international group of scientists who are looking for clues to the baffling disorder by examining the amazingly diverse and powerful microbial ecosystem that's an essential part of the human gastrointestinal tract and the extraordinary efforts of parents who have been relentlessly pushing science forward in hopes of finding answers for their children's condition.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Autism: Warming to its cold embrace

Autism: Warming to its cold embrace features the perspectives of many of the passionate autism advocates Award-winning independent filmmaker Robert Parish has met along his personal ASD journey, including Dr. Patricia Manning-Courtney and Jennifer Brown of The Kelly O’Leary Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Stephen Shore of Adelphi University, and other parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. Their points of view offer warmth, understanding, and inspiration to anyone who has a child or adult with autism in their lives.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret follows a New Jersey teacher and her class of young men with autism over the year and a half before graduation from high school. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world – a job or rare placement in a recreational center – so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

The United States of Autism

Planning a road trip this summer? In the video, The United States of Autism, a family takes an 11,000 mile, 40 day, cross-country road trip to interview families whose lives are affected by autism. Emotional and moving, this film shows how families across the country and across cultures are coping, or not, with their children's autism.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

The puberty video for boys with asperger syndrome

The Puberty Video for Boys with Asperger Syndrome (and Autism Spectrum Disorder - Level 1) is narrated by a young man with Asperger Syndrome and a neurotypical female co-host and features anatomical drawings and animation. It describes how male and female bodies change during puberty and how to deal with these changes (and urges) in appropriate ways that avoid social, ethical, and legal pitfalls. Information about intercourse, periods, pregnancy, birth control, sexually transmitted diseases, and more are also included.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.

TED Talk by Temple Grandin

"The world needs all kinds of minds," says Temple Grandin, who presented a Ted Talk in 2010. In it, she explains how her brain thinks in pictures and how she is able to understand animals' needs. The video is just under 20 minutes long and is a very interesting glimpse into Grandin's world. See the TED Talk at: http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds.html

Autism awareness video

Looking for a great video about what it feels like to have autism? Free Technology for Teachers found one and embedded it in their post yesterday. In the video, Michael shares his feelings on his own social awkwardness and being left out of things like basketball games or even just sitting down at a table. See the post at: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/01/a-great-message-from-student-about.html#.Uue0ahAo7s0

Bullying and ASD

Bullying and ASD: The Perfect Storm is a booklet with a DVD featuring teaching strategies with demonstrations of the tools needed to help children on the spectrum combat bullying. Parents and teachers both will find this title helpful in preventing bullying.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Talk to Me

Talks to Me looks at the lives of three children with autism who attend public school in Oakland, California, following them throughout their entire day. Provides a look into the daily lives of families from various socio-economic and racial backgrounds and sheds light on which families receive services for their children, which families don't, and why.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out.

Self-regulation in children: Keeping the body, mind & emotions on task in children with autism, ADHD or sensory disorders

Self-Regulation in Children is a 6-hour seminar on helping children with autism, ADHD, or sensory disorders regulate their bodies and emotions. It looks at the underlying factors of poor self-regulation and how they affect the child. Practical interventions and details are provided on how to create simple but effective programs in clinical, school and home settings.

Want to check out this DVD? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.