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Supporting Social and Emotional Development, Video Collection

Supporting Social and Emotional Development, Video Collection

Eastern Connecticut University has developed research based videos  supporting social and emotional development in early learning and care settings.

4-year-old has heart-to-heart with his mom about how to process his feelings (Video)

This kid is wise beyond his years.

Disability – How You See Me

“Society doesn’t correlate disability with being attractive… but we CAN be stylish, gorgeous, stunning, and FABULOUS.” For those with disability, what do you feel makes you a FABULOUS person? How do you think people see you as someone with a disability?

The Do’s and Don’ts of Disability (Video)

In this film, Michelle Middleton takes a humorous look at people’s reactions to her cerebral palsy. The 26-year-old has created the piece, with the help of Fixers, to encourage others not to treat her, or anyone else with a disability, differently.

La Sopa de la Abuela: Special Education Telenovela

Series of Family Engagement Videos in Spanish!

This series was designed to support the engagement of families in the special education process, share information, encourage advocacy skills, and foster collaborative home-school partnerships which positively impact student success. Created by a design team that included family and staff members, we hope you’ll join us for the journey of one family as they navigate their emotions, learn about special education, and make decisions.

My Disability Road Map (Video)

Did you see the movie, “Including Samuel”? The award-winning film documented the inclusion of Samuel Habib, a child with multiple disabilities, in preschool and into elementary school. Now he is all grown up! He’s 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college.

But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond public school and into adulthood is difficult to navigate. Samuel lives with a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a mutation in a gene known as GNAO1. He drives a 350-pound wheelchair, uses a communication device, and can have a seizure at any moment.

In “My Disability Roadmap,” co-directed by Samuel and his father Dan Habib, he seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. He wants to learn how they built full adult lives as a road map for himself and others. “No one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability,” he says. “But there are badass people with disabilities who figured it out. Maybe they could be my mentors.”

Learn more about the film and listen to the audio description pre-show

This Is Not About Me (Video)

Emily Ladau, author of Demystifying Disability, recommends the documentary called This Is Not About Me, suggested to her by Lauren Schrero, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Nora Project. It spotlights Jordyn Zimmerman, who shares her experiences as a nonspeaking autistic student who didn’t have access to effective communication tools until she was 18 years old. 

“….this documentary incredibly powerful and worthwhile. It’s clear proof that we need to move beyond the limiting idea that there are only certain “right” ways to express ourselves or communicate.”

Becoming Helen Keller – Now Streaming (Video)

Revisit the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, used her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities and people living in poverty.

The film reveals little-known details of Keller’s personal life and examines her public persona and advocacy, including the progressive reforms she helped achieve. Speaking out for civil rights at great personal cost, Keller supported women’s suffrage, the NAACP, access to health care and assistive technology as a human right, and workers’ rights as a member of the Socialist Party of America and the labor union Industrial Workers of the World.

CODA — Official Trailer (Video)

Every family has its own language. Watch CODA now on Apple TV+ and in select theaters.

Gifted with a voice that her parents can’t hear, seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.

Molly Wright: How every child can thrive by five (Video)

“What if I was to tell you that a game of peek-a-boo could change the world?” asks seven-year-old Molly Wright, one of the youngest-ever TED speakers. Breaking down the research-backed ways parents and caregivers can support children’s healthy brain development, Wright highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behavior and well-being, sharing effective strategies to help all kids thrive by the age of five. She’s joined onstage by one-year-old Ari and his dad, Amarjot, who help illustrate her big ideas about brain science. (This TED Talk was produced in collaboration with Minderoo Foundation as an educational tool for parents and caregivers around the world and is supported by UNICEF.)