Video / Audio Clip Listing

It is important to understand characteristics of children with disabilities, and to be aware of strategies or points to remember when working with them. However, as with all children, each person is unique, and the best way to really appreciate some of the challenges they face, and to truly come to an understanding about what the “characteristics” mean related to any disability, it is important to meet them directly. For all of us involved in working with special needs students, we rely less on the paper diagnosis that is provided in any file, and more on the actual meeting with the child/young person, and observing how they function in a given situation.

This website attempts to give you a ‘visual-sound picture’ of some young people with disabilities, along with commentaries from the specialists who work with them. We are grateful to the students and their families who agreed to be filmed for this project. Their motivation continues to be one of educating the public at large of the strengths and challenges children with disabilities face, and how we can more effectively serve them.

Video and audio clips can be found throughout the website and are indicated using the following symbols:

• video tap = video clip
• microphone = audio clip

View the list of video and audio clips.