Autism: The Musical

[drowninginlaundry]

Last month the first annual San Francisco Bay Area Autism Film Festival took place in Palo Alto. A SF-based friend of mine flagged this to me.

The audience was shown several films:

'The Third Parent'
'Elle s'appelle Sabine' (winner at Cannes, tells the story of a 38-year old woman with autism)
'Today's Man' (about a man with Aspergers)
'Refridgerator Mothers' (about the awful theory in the 1950's that autism was caused by failed attachment)
and
'Autism: The Musical' (an award-winning documentary about five autistic children rehearsing for a performance)

Autism: The Musical is absolutely fascinating. I am going to try to get hold of the DVD, but here's the link for the movie, and here's a YouTube clip.

It's such an uplifting story, and deserves attention. It just comes to show how a dedicated teacher with an open mind can help these children achieve amazing things.

www.autismthemusical.com

oops screwed up the link, hope it works

Drowning

Am so glad you mentioned this.

I was in the US last week and watched this programme on one of the tv networks!. I felt deeply moved by all of those parents involved in the making of that programme and their stories (Neil in particular). One particular comment stood out in my mind said by one of the parents, "I cannot make them (NT people) value her".

It's also under the "Miracle Progect" - I'll find a link for it.

If your DVD player is multi region it should readily play on your DVD player (US discs are region 1 and we in the UK are region 2).

This is the link referred to:-

www.themiracleproject.org/home.htm

Thank you for the link!

Bamboozle Theatre Company in the UK does similar work. I'd love to see a project like that take off here.