How Difficult Can This Be? F.A.T. City A Learning Disabilities Workshop
This unique program lets viewers experience the frustration, anxiety, and tension faced by children with learning disabilities. Workshop facilitator Richard Lavoie presents a series of striking simulations emulating daily experience of LD children. Teachers, social workers, and parents, workshop participants, reflect upon how the workshop changed their approach to LD children. Includes discussion of mainstreaming discipline and self-concept.
Running Time
68 mins
Year
2013
Kanopy ID
1159528
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Comments (2)
I have seen a few of his other videos - The Motivation Breakthrough, and It's So Hard to be Your Friend" - they're all excellent resources for understanding learning disabilities. I would like to see you add these two videos, as well as "Beyond F.A.T. City", if possible.
I really enjoyed it because it allows me to see how the professionals feel because I have a learning disability. And the thing that I dislike is that it not in all schools.