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BCTV News Hour Access - Autism 1977

Margit Nance for BCTV

EducationNewsChildren's

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About

An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast during the weekend news hour show in 1977. The piece explores new educational options at Lord Tennyson Elementary School, one of a limited number of classes (three) in the province specifically for children living with autism. Explores the needs and behaviour of autistic kids and the nature of parenting and family life with children on the spectrum in the context of the then-common practice of institutionalizing autistic children in facilities designed for people with “mental retardation.” Lois Meyerhoff of the Pacific Association for Autistic Children discusses the growing trend whereby families refuse institutionalization, instead keeping autistic children in the home, although often with few or no social supports.

Interviewed or featured in the piece: Gary [[Wiltshire??]], special educator; Dr. Chris Webster, Director, Child Care Training at University of Victoria; children living with autism: Brent, John John, and Jocelyn (and her mother and sister); Lois Meyerhoff, President of the Pacific Association for Autistic Children.

Producer Margit Nance. (Other production credits for the piece have been lost.)

BCTV Access

Aired 1977

11min. 55sec.

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Archive
Internet Archive, in Classic TV
Licence or status
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
Credit
Margit Nance for BCTV
Language
English
Who can watch
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