Part of the Team: People with Disabilities in the Workforce [VHS]
20 minutes, 1990
Description: People with disabilities comprise a large and often untapped resource. As a nation, we cannot afford to overlook their talent if we are compete effectively in the international marketplace. Hiring people with disabilities simply makes good business sense. Part of the Team is designed to assist employers in understanding why hiring people with disabilities can help meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Part of the Team also helps managers feel comfortable with people who have disabilities and identifies resources available to assist in accommodating disabilities.

Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities [VHS]
58 minutes, 1989
Description: Nearly one in five Americans is disabled, and people with disabilities represent the one minority group that anyone can join at any time. Disabled women face discrimination based on gender as well as disability, with racism often compounding the picture. Positive Images is designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, economic, and political issues they face. The Video focuses on three strong and articulate women: Carol Ann Robertson, director of the Mayor's Office for the Handicapped in New York City and the mother of two children; Diedre Davis, an attorney in private practice and a disability rights advocate; and Barbara Kannapel, an educator at Gallaudet College and leader in the culture of deafness. Topics discussed include sexuality, personal relationships, family life and parenting, education and careers, and social attitudes. Positive Images offers crucial role models for women and girls with disabilities and also identifies disability as a women's issue of concern to all of us.

Something Magical [VHS]
28 minutes, 1989
Description: In a unique approach to the process of teaching concern and care for others, Something Magical highlights a triumph over prejudice toward the disabled through a touching story of personal and group achievement. Teresa Maebori, a third-and fourth-grade teacher at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia was dismayed when her students performed a skit that mimicked the physically and mentally disabled. Maebori didn't like her pupils' tough and uncaring attitude, and she resolved to give them an opportunity to experience a greater understanding of those who experience debilitating diseases. She initiated a class project that included a visit to a school for children with cerebral palsy in West Philadelphia. Maebori's idea grew into an innovative educational experience that paired her able-bodied third-and fourth-grade students with physically challenged students aged four to sixteen years. The students participated in a six-month project to produce a musical play entitled The Other Side of the Fence, written and composed by Andrea Green, a music therapist at HMS School. Viewers of the film share the important insights of both groups and learn about the lives of those who live with cerebral palsy. Children at the HMS School are shown to be a diverse group, including students who possess average or above average intelligence but are unable to speak and those who have been delayed in their mental growth. The use of a wheelchair does not deter any of them from actively and eagerly participating in the staged musical, since electronic synthesized speech devices, computers, special musical instruments, and body expressions all provide outlets for expression. Something Magical captures a very special event and the invaluable bond that developed between the two groups of students.