Free screening of award-winning film

The Governor's Council for People with Disabilities is offering a free public film screening of the film, Including Samuel, on Sunday, December 4th at 7 p.m. at the Westin Downtown Indianapolis Grand Ballroom. Registration is not required.

This award-winning documentary film examines the educational and social inclusion of youth with disabilities. It is built on the Habib family’s efforts to include Samuel, 8, in all facets of their lives, a journey that transforms each of them. Including Samuel also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, plus interviews with teachers, parents, students, and disability rights experts.

Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the filmmaker and photojournalist, Dan Habib.

Vocational Rehabiliation video

The Institute’s Center on Community Living and Careers (CCLC) has released a Spanish version of its popular video, “Working with Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services.” The video, originally published in English in 2015, is illustrated in “quick draw” style, which takes viewers through the VR referral, eligibility, and application process. CCLC created both videos for Indiana VR to help Hoosiers with disabilities and their families as they learn new skills, look for a job, or start a career. Indiana’s VR counselors, secondary transition teachers, job coaches, employment service providers, and human resource professionals are using the videos at job fairs, conference exhibits, parent nights, and as they work with their individual job seekers.

The Spanish version, Servicios de Rehabilitacion Vocationales de Indiana includes new voiceover, translated on-screen text, and Spanish captions and is available to watch and share on YouTube.

View the YouTube video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8pdsQJk3w

Memory and Alzheimer's

A post from Open Culture spotlights a short video produced by cut.com that has asked six people with early stages of Alzheimer's disease which memories they would never want to forget. Ranging from age 48 to 70, the interviewees discuss the most precious times in their lives, the recent past being more difficult to remember than their childhood.

To read the post and watch the video, please visit:
http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/people-with-alzheimers-tell-us-which-memories-they-never-want-to-forget.html

Observations Based on Sensory Integration Theory

Observations Based on Sensory Integration Theory is a DVD and workbook covering two 30-minute presentations that demonstrate the administration and interpretation of specific observations, including those originally defined by DR. A. Jean Ayres as "Clinical Observations." The workbook includes a table of observations, normative information, and a glossary of terms, references and worksheets.

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

Alive Inside

Alive Inside is a deeply moving, inspirational documentary about the power of music. Watch as people who are living with dementia transform when listening to music that stirs their soul.

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

Rare

Rare, a feature documentary, follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time, as she unites a group of isolated people from around the world in a quest to cure her daughter's rare genetic disease.

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

Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's: An Emotional Journey

Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's: An Emotional Journey offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. There are currently no treatments to halt the progression of this disease, making caregiving both essential--and difficult. The video discusses topics such as:

• Caring for one who doesn't remember your name
• Grieving the losses of their life, and yours
• When an unexpected side of your loved one comes out
• When it feels like your love no longer helps
• 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.

Beyond disability: A yoga practice with Matthew Sanford

Beyond disability: A yoga practice with Matthew Sanford is a 50-minute DVD that shows how everyone can practice yoga at home while seated. This video is a complete adaptive yoga class. Students with spinal cord injuries demonstrate each section.

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

Softening: Loving a Child with Special Needs

In Softening: Loving a Child with Special Needs, filmmaker Kelly O’Brien speaks honestly about her struggle to cope for the first five years following the birth of Teddy, born with extensive brain damage resulting from an in-utero viral infection. The rewards as well as the challenges of caring for him are evident in Softening, a lyrical cinematic diary O’Brien created to celebrate her son’s inherent beauty and the joy he brings to his family’s life. His big sister’s vast affection and his father’s poignant observation that all Teddy’s physical limitations fall away when he dreams help to dispel the fear and discomfort often surrounding the topic of disability. In leaving out the grittier details of Teddy’s daily regimen to focus on the moments of intimacy and play, the film also documents O’Brien’s gradual process of opening up emotionally—her softening—about her son’s difficult diagnosis.

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

We can shine: From institutions to independence

We can shine: From institutions to independence is a documentary made by a filmmaker with a disability about the state of institutions for people with developmental disabilities in New York State from the 1900's onward. It explores specific events within the DD movement and interviews self-advocates who were placed in institutions at a young age and are now living independently.

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

Disability awareness from the U.K.

From the U.K. comes a series of one-minute ads meant to end the awkwardness that sometimes happens between people with and without disabilities. Those without disabilities can sometimes seem downright offensive to people with disabilities without even knowing it. In addition to the ads, there is also a quiz to find out just how awkward you are with someone with a disability.

Want to read the article and view the videos? Please visit: http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5694742/are-you-a-jerk-to-people-with-disabilities-without-even-knowing-it

Sensory Overload

The goal of Sensory Overload is to educate and raise awareness about autism. It is also a story about family and love. A personal story of the struggles and growth in the lives of parents and siblings faced with autism.

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

Skills for Independence, Transition, and Employment

"The S.I.T.E. program (Skills for Independence, Transition, and Employment), based at Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), is a 2-year college campus and community-based transition program for students with intellectual disabilities between the ages of 18 and 21 following their high school education. The program is designed to create and support a daily schedule personalized to the student's interests and needs in an adult-oriented environment."

CeDIR has a copy of S.I.T.E.'s DVD which is an overview of their program. Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this video.

Special Needs Puberty and Social Skills

Looking for puberty and personal safety instruction for teens and young adults with disabilities? CeDIR has a copy for boys, A Boy's Guide to Puberty and Personal Safety, and a copy for girls, A Girl's Guide to Puberty and Personal Safety. Each title is a kit that includes a DVD, workbooks for students, and a teaching guide.

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

Disabilities at work: Successful job hunting for people with disabilities: Effective job search

Disabilities at work: Successful job hunting for people with disabilities: Effective job search is a three-part series of DVDs that will help people with disabilities gain the confidence, awareness, search tools, and interview strategies that they will need to become successful at the job search. This 3-part series runs 23-28 minutes for each DVD.

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

Race to Nowhere

Race to Nowhere is an award-winning documentary that highlights the unintended consequences of our pressure-cooker culture and education system. An eye-opening call to action, the film challenges our deepest-held assumptions about how we can best prepare young people for the future.


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

Helen Keller in Her Story

Helen Keller In Her Story is a simple, honest, tremendously moving saga that is brought to the screen with the help of such notables as Katherine Cornell, Martha Graham, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through newsreels, interviews, photographs and motion pictures, this film traces the life of Helen Keller from birth until 76 years of age, and shows how this blind, deaf, and mute woman became one of the most celebrated women of two centuries.


Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Possibilities

Possibilities is a video series from the Developmental Disabilities Institute at Wayne State University in Michigan. The video highlights the lives of Emily, Abby, Liz & Greta--four women with disabilities who each have succeeded in their own way in living fulfilling lives through advocacy, support, and most of all--careful planning. Each 4 to 7 minute video highlights one individual's journey, along with their family and friends, and shows the myriad possibilities and options that all people have as they grow up, become independent, and pursue their life's dreams and goals.

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

Pronouns! from teach2talk

Volume 1 of teach2talk’s™ Pronouns! series of videos helps teach children to understand and use a variety of basic pronouns, focusing on the first pronouns which children typically acquire, such I, you, he, she, it, etc. It covers all of the common personal pronouns (including their objective, subjective and possessive forms). Pronouns are extremely important in children’s language development. This DVD is appropriate for any child who has not yet mastered the understanding and use of personal pronouns or who confuses them, as well as children who are just starting to learn and use pronouns. Children typically begin to develop their use of personal pronouns between two and three years of age.

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

Career counseling for neurodiverse clients

Need help guiding clients with hidden disabilities? Designed for career, college, and high school counselors, Career counseling for neurodiverse clients takes the viewer through the challenge of helping a client with hidden disabilities find employment. The video also helps counselors understand why the job search is so difficult for clients with hidden disabilities.

Send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu if you're interested in checking out this title. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Note: The title on the cover is different from the title on the DVD.