The Community and the Exceptional Child: Summary

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1959

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Examines the role of the community in helping the exceptional child achieve the maximum of his potentiality. Dr. G. Orville Johnson discusses the many agencies in the community who contribute to the growth and development of exceptional children; reviews the many and varied types of exceptionality; and stresses the importance of special services for the many exceptional children and their specific problems. Dr. William A. Cruickshank discusses the common problems faced by parents, the school, and the community-at-large in fulfilling their responsibilities to the exceptional child, and describes what the future holds with respect to exceptionality. Illustrates with film sequences. (Syracuse University) Kinescope and Film.

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