Speak Out For Understanding [DVD]

A student produced documentary about disability awareness. Promoting communication, understanding, and equity for people with disabilities. Loaded with extras, the DVD also contains a Facilitator's Guide and pamphlet "Choosing Words with Dignity" to foster dialogue and positive action. Through a dynamic service-learning project titled Speak Out for Understanding, a group of high school students with varying abilities is learning to speak out for themselves and others. After exploring some of the challenges facing students with disabilities, they discovered that a lack of understanding is a big part of the problem. To address this lack of understanding, a group of high school students decided to create a documentary film to raise awareness by telling their own stories to selected audiences for the purpose of bringing about change. [author]