# BCTV News Hour Access - Autism 1977

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.

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1977
- By: Margit Nance for BCTV
- Genres: Education, News, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BCTV.Access.Autism1977)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1977; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2072. Unclear is not offered.