Intricate Minds: Understanding Classmates with Asperger Syndrome - DVD

From Reviews: ...an excellent introduction to Asperger Syndrome... poignant... well produced... fosters an understanding... unique, intelligent and likable teens speak for themselves... enlightening and compelling...
Intricate Minds: Understanding Classmates with Asperger Syndrome

Candid interviews with teenagers designed to promote positive interactions between classmates and reduce harassment and bullying.

Through interviews with students who have Asperger Syndrome (AS), this video offers an inside look at how teenagers with AS act, think and feel -- and how they're routinely treated.  The students talk about their strengths as well as their challenges and describe how important is it to them to be treated with respect.  The program's open includes speculation that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein had Asperger Syndrome.  

After viewing this video, classmates should be less likely to ignore or harass students with AS -- and be more willing to treat them as equals.  The program is designed for students in high school and middle school and is an excellent staff development tool.  (For younger children, please check out our elementary school Intricate Minds DVDs.)

SUBTITLES: This DVD has optional English, Spanish and Japanese subtitles.

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Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., Yale University, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology

"This video provides an excellent introduction to Asperger Syndrome for typically developing adolescents and children.  Individuals with the disorder movingly describe their own experience of the condition.  This video will serve as an excellent resource for teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists and guidance counselors in helping typically developing peers...

Daniel Rosenn, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry; Founding Member, Asperger's Assoc. of New England

"Intricate Minds is a concise but inspiring tape of teenagers with Asperger's Syndrome talking about themselves. It is moving and empowering to hear these children talk in such an authentic, earnest, yet optimistic way. While it is fascinating to see the many varied faces of Asperger's Syndrome, at the same time it is even more poignant to see their common yearning to be understood and...

School Library Journal "Best Books 2005" edition by Anitra Gordon, formerly Lincoln High School Ypsilanti, MI.

"Students with Asperger Syndrome (AS), the high end of the autism spectrum, talk about how they think and feel, and about their behavior classmates may find quirky, in this excellent film.  The narrator, a college student with AS, explains that their brains are wired differently and they often have difficulty with social interactions because they don’t recognize body language or other...

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This DVD is produced in the North American NTSC video format. It will play in "dual format" DVD players that play both NTSC videos and PAL format videos used in Europe and Australia.