All down history (TEFC)

United Kingdom, 1982

Film
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Episode of Series “Special Needs in Education”.
Looks at the history of Mongolism and school provision for Down’s syndrome children. Compares a school for severely subnormal children with a high proportion of Down’s children, with a school for children with moderate learning difficulties and two Down’s children, and finally with a local comprehensive school with one Down’s child

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Credits

producer

Nick Brenton

production company

BBC-TV

Open University

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1982

Appears in

Special Needs in Education

Group of items

Special Needs in Education

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323630

Language

English

Subject categories

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Mainstreaming in education

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Down's syndrome

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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