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This 25 minute film was created by a young teenager who has disabilities. Reuben uses a communication device to be understood. In this film he interviews many people who speak various languages. Reuben shows how communication is a universal issue and not a disability related issue.

 

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The multi-award winning film, The Witness, (not to be confused with the film Witness) is available on line, on the Tribe of Heart website (www.tribeofheart.org).

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The Gary Yourofsky lecture is available on line, at www.adaptt.org and www.gary-tv.com.

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Full of joy set in the desert in US, large German woman turns up (slowly) with equally large suitcase and (slowly) takes room in truck stop cafe run by energetic young black woman.

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 The beauty of this book is that it conveys the deep message and practice of mindfulness without ever naming it or making it into some big intellectual thing.

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You Are My World is a beautiful book with a profound message about what it means to be human.  The lovely photos of infants are combined with simple phrases written from a baby's point of view. The simple fact that we are wired from birth to connect and communicate is reinforced in a gentle way.

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This deceptively simple picture book depicts the creation of a new friendship using only one or two words per page and illustrated with two expressively drawn characters.  An exuberant boy greets a seemingly shy, somewhat downcast boy as they walk down the street.  The greeting of Yo!

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Wretches and Jabberers directed by Gerardine Wurzburg, with Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette

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A Vimeo 3 min. video shwoing people doing things and you have to pay attention to what they're doing to understand the word being depicted.

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‘I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.’

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