Autism and Cake
A grandfather struggles with the acceptance of his autistic grandson.
A grandfather struggles with the acceptance of his autistic grandson.
Ed Asner
Fred
Lauren Katz
Judy
Chase Edmunds
Dylan
Edith Fields
Alice
Marvin Kaplan
Mark
Karen Tarleton
Temple Grandin
Joe Estevez
Jim
Marilyn McIntyre
Betsy
Arnold Weiss
Arnie
A grandfather struggles with the acceptance of his autistic grandson.
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A non-verbal, autistic girl and a chatty boy are partnered on a canoeing trip. To complete their journey across an urban lake, they must both learn how the other experiences the world.
At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.
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The short tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering whats waiting in front of the door. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for her son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his video game.
A recently widowed, now single father struggles to raise his sixth-grade son with autism. The pressure of his job and coping with the loss of his wife proves to push him nearly to the breaking point.