Just Listen - Learning Disabilities
- Synopsis
- Three people who have learning disabilities talk about how they have learnt to live with them and to overcome the prejudices they encountered. The message is that society needs to change.
- Series
- Just Listen, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Subjects
- Education; Psychology
- Keywords
- dyslexia; equality of opportunity; learning disabilities; prejudice
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Price
- £50.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 26 minutes
- Year
- 2012
Sections
- Title
- Race and Religion: Ibraham and Clair
- Synopsis
- Ibraham’s story of personal tragedy dispels many of the myths that exist about refugees and asylum seekers.
Clair, a British Muslim, tells how lack of understanding leads to prejudice towards other religions, particularly Islam. - Duration
- 12 mins
- Title
- Disability: Linda
- Synopsis
- How other people regard those with a disability. Linda is a wheelchair user and talks about how people treat her and other disabled people differently. We see examples from her perspective, giving viewers an insight into Linda’s world and the difficulties disabled people have to face.
- Duration
- 13 mins
- Title
- Gender and Sexuality: Alice and Mick
- Synopsis
- A transvestite and a gay man talk about prejudice they have encountered. Alice, a transvestite, describes how transgendered people have to live with abuse and ridicule. Mick is gay and has been attacked because of "what he is". He talks about the stress that hiding your true identity brings.
- Duration
- 10 mins
Production Company
- Name
Alpha Films
- info@alphafilms.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.alphafilms.co.uk/index.htm External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 328283
- Fax
- 01473 328283
- Address
- 16 Reade Road
Holbrook
Ipswich
IP9 2QL
Distributor
- Name
Concord Media
- sales@concordmedia.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01473 726 012
- Address
- Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG - Notes
- A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.
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