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Showing 1 - 10 of 11 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Asperger and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Austin Unbound
A look at the intersection of disability and gender identity.
Collective Eye Films | 2014 | 43 minutes
Autism: A World Apart
Three families show us what the textbooks and studies cannot show about autism.
The Fanlight Collection | 1988 | 29 minutes
Autism: The Road Back
Charts the personal journey of three families with children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
National Film Board of Canada | 2005 | 54 minutes
Being Michelle
A deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 80 minutes
A Child Unlike Any Other
Jan Maka was a child like any other, until his family's lives were turned upside down when it was discovered he had autism.
National Film Board of Canada | 2005 | 11 minutes
Penelope, My Love
For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Composed of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, Penelope My Love traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence.
Lightdox | 2021 | 88 minutes
Recovering Ruffin
PhD student Ruffin White overcomes the grim predictions for his future after a severe autism spectrum disorder diagnosis
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 14 minutes
Refrigerator Mothers
From the 1950's through the 1970's, autism was widely blamed on cold and rejecting mothers. This film explores the devastating impact of this misdiagnosis through the stories of seven mothers and their children.
The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 53 minutes
Thinking Existenz - Ep 04 - Suad Amiry
A highbrow 10-part serieson philosophy, politics and society. Episode 4 stars Suad Amiry, the Syrian author and director of the Centre for the Conversation of Palestinian Archictectural Heritage.
First Hand Films | 2013 | 30 minutes
The Three of Us
A Young Orthodox, Jewish couple is fighting to intergrate their autistic son into Israeli society, to fulfill that dream, they are willing to risk everything.
GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 80 minutes
