"CHILD PSYCHIATRY / AUTISM’S LONELY CHILDREN” 1964 AUSTISM AWARENESS EDUCATIONAL FILM SM10025

Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @periscopefilm   Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit   / periscopefilm   Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1964 black-and-white educational film is the sixth episode of the Spectrum series from the National Educational Television Network (NET). This pioneering program details the symptoms, behaviors, and early treatment methods for children with autism, focusing on two children, Marty and Peter, who are part of a pilot study by Dr. Frank Hewett at the Neuropsychiatric School at UCLA. The film begins with Peter and Marty playing alone in a kitchen/schoolroom at the Institute (1:16). Marty, the more severely affected child, rocks back and forth, jumps, and makes repetitive tapping movements while pouring sand out of a cup. The narrator says an autistic child lives “in a world of his own making.” (1:51). Peter vocalizes, writes his name on a chalkboard, (2:11) and uses a pencil sharpener (3:04). Marty flaps his arms and repetitively throws a stick on the floor (3:09). Dr. Hewett leads Marty into a 2-way teaching booth to try to teach him how to speak (3:53). At 4:10, Dr. Hewett explains his method of providing rewards or punishments based on whether a child follows directions, in a similar style to early Applied Behavioral Analysis techniques often used with autistic children. Dr. Hewett gets Marty to clap and touch his nose by imitating and repeating the behavior, rewarding him with candy when he does so (5:18). At 6:48, Dr. Hewett tries to get Marty to say a sound he makes spontaneously, “B-B-B,” by repeating the sound and offering him candy. At first, Marty only responds to avoid punishment when Dr. Hewett turns off the lights (7:15), although he later speaks without the lights off as punishment (8:04). At 8:17, Ethel Rabb, a female teacher, counts to six while working to get Peter to write the number six. Dr. Hewett works with Peter in the teaching booth (8:46); Peter had never spoken an intelligible word until he entered the teaching booth. Dr. Hewett gets Peter to raise his arms and imitate other gestures; he uses other incentives, like a cartoon movie (9:06) and music, as rewards. Peter says, “go,” in the teaching booth, which was his first word (9:50). Dr. Hewett sings and spins the chair to reward Peter (10:08). Peter says other basic words (“see”), drinks a glass of water (10:50), and touches and identifies his nose and ear, although still struggles to reply to questions (11:48). At 12:01, Dr. Hewett has a long back-and-forth to try to get Peter to answer, “What’s your name?” He shows Peter pictures of his father, mother, a toilet, food, and water, and asks him to identify them (12:53). He tries to get Peter to repeat and identify physical objects, handing him a cup of water and a key (13:38). At 14:23, Dr. Hewett says Peter has learned about 15 words, and explains to Peter’s parents how to use his techniques, only giving him objects once he says what they are. He shows Peter’s parents the “daddy” and “mama” photos, prompting Peter to answer “Who’s that?” when he points to his parents (16:00). At 16:37, he turns the session over to Peter’s parents. Peter answers the same questions at first and then runs over to play with the sink (17:30). Peter’s mother asks which pictures he would like next and hands him the photos (17:57). The film ends with Dr. Hewett saying he hopes these techniques can help autistic children learn to speak. Credits: Produced by David Prowitt; directed by Philip Burton, Jr., Jack Willis; associate producers Eliot Tozer, John MacDonald; production supervisor Howard Genser; production co-cordinator Thomas Reynolds; film co-ordinator Jacquelyn Aamodt; production assistant Linda Gist; director of photography Frank Simon; narrator George Hicks; film editors Irving Winter, Joan Chaffee, Howard Milkin. Filmed at The Visual Perception Center Psychology Department Brooklyn College; science consultant Edwin Diamond, Newsweek Magazine; executive producer Jack Sameth. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com