people with mental disabilities

Explores the history of injuries to the brain from primitive medical treatment to the sophisticated techniques used today and addresses the consequences that can follow a severe head injury, treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation.

Photographs show children with Down syndrome in activities with objects corresponding to the letters of the alphabet.

Russ, a five-year-old with Down syndrome, visits his uncle's firehouse and gets to help with the daily chores.

Photographs show children with Down syndrome handling an increasing number of objects from one to twenty.

On a small Florida orange grove in the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Kady Palmer is burdened with housework and caring for her senile grandmother and mentally handicapped neighbor, so when a rich, handsome boy from school becomes interested in her she devises a plan to spend time with him.

In 1973, living in a small South Carolina town with her grandmother and mentally handicapped aunt, thirteen-year-old Memphis finds her troubled relationship with her grandmother grow steadily worse, especially when Memphis is held responsible for her aunt's disappearance.

Second-grader Dustin, who has Down syndrome, anticipates the arrival of two very special guests at his school one day.

Explains the nature, causes, symptoms, and treatment of Down syndrome, describing how the condition affects four people and their families.

As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, an alcoholic and her retarded son.

Two drifters, George and Lennie, see their dreams of buying their own farm come to a tragic end when Lennie, a simple-minded man, accidentally commits a crime.