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A Better Way

Discover a new perspective to the concept of 'win-win' with A Better Way, the story of three South African retailers faced with finding a new approach to their businesses. CRM Learning.

A Grander Goal

Sometimes the lessons we most need to learn are found half a world away, in lands far different from our own. This is the case with A Grander Goal, a training program offering a profound shift in our approach to leadership. CRM Learning.

A Little History Worth Knowing

Ron Lofton, Narrator. From ancient times to telethons to today's growing disability movement, A Little History Worth Knowing traces the often overlooked history of people with disabilities. A Little History Worth Knowing reviews historical stereotypes, media stereotypes, and the effect of today's technology on people's ability to work and live independently. 22 minutes. Program Development Associates.

A Video Guide to (Dis)Ability Awareness

Former President Bill Clinton opens and concludes this informative, 26 minute video on (Dis)Ability Awareness. It is an excellent orientation to the human side of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Designed for group training or personal use. Program Development Associates.

Breathing Lessons

The life and work of Mark O'Brien. a film by Jessica Yu. Academy Award Winner: Best Short Documentary. Sundance Film Festival. San Francisco International Film Festival: Silver Spire Award. 35 minutes. Fanlight Productions.

Building Boards that Work

Explores how an organization builds the board it needs. Video and workshops user's guide. National Center for Nonprofit Boards.

Dealing with Conflict

This film teaches people how to control conflict before it takes control of them-resulting in a healthier work environment, more productivity and higher quality. While the skills and insights presented here will enhance management's ability to resolve conflicts, they are for all employees-enabling everyone to work through conflicts with less dependence on superiors. Three scenarios in personal and business settings dramatize the five positions taken by most people, during conflict: Avoiding, Accommodating, Competing, Compromising and Collaborating. Viewers learn how these positions lead to destructive or constructive results. Skills for mutually beneficial outcomes will definitely be remembered. 20 minutes. CRM Learning.

Delegating for Diehards: Working Together to Get Things Done

Getting it all done these days isn t easy. While most of us have more job responsibilities than ever, we also have tighter deadlines. So what s the answer? DELEGATING. It's a concept many people find absolutely frightening, and with good reason. Letting go of important projects or taking on someone else s project is scary, especially if you ve been burned before. But if it s done effectively, delegating can greatly improve productivity. CRM Learning.

Disability, Identity & Culture

Change Perceptions With 800 Fast Paced, Provocative, and Powerful Images. Featuring poet and performer Cheryl Marie Wade, this video takes a fresh look at what it means to be disabled in America. Features over 800 video and still images. This is not the usual anthropological study of disabled people as specimens. It uncovers issues related to: freedom of choice, disability pride, independent living, the power of language and images, sexuality, community, and the right to live with dignity. It assumes that there is a disability culture, and at the core of this culture is empowerment, pride, and a flat out, no apologies celebration of difference. Program Development Associates.

Educating Peter

This is the story of a boy with Down syndrome and his classmates testing the limits of this law. This beautifully filmed program chronicles the school year of Mrs. Stalling's third grade class. Their first week together is probably the most harrowing in the lives of many of these children. After many tribulations and a great deal of planning, Mrs. Stallings, her students and Peter discover the triumphs and rewards of Educating Peter. 30 minutes. Program Development Associates.

Expanding Access / Expanding Horizons

This 10-minute video program: Examines computer access for people with disabilities. Shows various computer hardware and software options as well as other electronic devices. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Groupthink, Revised Edition

Why do even the most cohesive, well-intentioned groups sometimes make decisions that turn out to be monumental errors? The late Dr. Irving Janis of Yale University identified the culprit as groupthink: A natural tendency to achieve agreement for the sake of group unity, regardless of contracry facts or potential consequences. CRMS's latest edition of Groupthink features an interview with Dr. James K. Esser, Professor, Department of Psychology at Lamar University. Using footage from the ABC-TV moview "Challenger" by Hearst Entertainment, this film includes a re-enactment of conferences leading to the tragic launch of the Space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Additional examples: Groupthink decisions relating to the 1941 attach of Pearl Harbor; and to the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco. With its concise definition of groupthink and how to avoid it, this video is essential for every participant in the group decision-making process. 22 minutes. CRM Learning.

If I Can't Do It

Born with cerebral palsy in an isolated Kentucky cabin, Arthur Campbell spent his first thirty eight years sheltered by over-protective parents at home. "I watched a lot of television," he says, "and I never saw a program about anyone whose life was like mine." Today, he lives independently, and is an advocate and activist for disability rights. This is an unflinching portrait of one cantakerous and courageous disability man who, with many others, is pushing for independence and an equal slice of the American pie. Witty, stubborn, and often exasperating, Campbell is neither a hero nor a saint, but a complex individual working to fulfill his dreams by seizing control of his own existence and living life on his own terms. "It takes someone to make a stand, someone to say, 'I've had enough.' Do you think I have delusions of grandeur? Maybe so, but where would Ibe without my ego?" A presentation of the Independent Television Service, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 57 minutes. Fanlight Productions.

Journey to Discovery

Here is a lesson about how the ghosts of our past create both fear and guidance. It is the story of a successful author grappling with writer's block and his very personal Journey to Discovery. CRM Learning.

Justin Dart, Jr. Memorial Service July 26, 2002

The disability rights advocate died June 22 at age 71. On the 12th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), Mrs. Dart, family and friends hosted a celebration honoring Justin Dart, Jr.'s life and contributions to the causes of people with disabilities, including passage of the ADA. The services also included performances by Reverend Nolan Williams, Jr. and the Psalmists Gospel Ensemble; Nura Aly, 7th grade activist and violinist; and his widow, Yoshiko Dart and family signing Sakura, a traditional Japanese song about cherry blossoms. In addition, Mr. Dart, Jr. had chosen sleected advocates to participate in the program as representatives of the full spectrum of people with disabilities. This program is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. C-SPAN.

Leadership and the New Science

As a consultant to major corporations, Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley has heard many management thinkers admit that they no longer know how organizations can change for the better in this continously turbulent business world. In search of answers, she discovered vital clues in Nature - how natural systems "manage themselves" - and how we might manage complex organizations as well. Wheatley is an associate professor of business management. Her landmark book, Leadership and the New Science, formed the basis for this video. Here she suggests a revolutionary new approach to breaking out of limited perspectives and seeing chaos as a natural force for creating order. Includes leader's guide. 23 minutes. CRM Films.

Lessons from the New Workplace

When Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley introduced the idea that people could use Nature's living systems as models for reinventing today's organizations, her book and our video called "Leadership and the New Science" became catalysts for action. Now, the video you hold in your hands presents documentary proof that Wheatley's theory can be turned into practical application in the workplace. Here Wheatley reveals case histories at DuPont Corporation, the U.S. Army and the Forsythe County School District. You'll see useful strategies for using organizational chaos and change as positive forces for new breakthroughs in teamwork, creativity and productivity-challenging outdated paradigms. With leader's guide. 23 minutes. CRM Films.

Look Who's Laughing

     A funny and compelling documentary about the lives, experiences and humor of six working comedians who have various types of disabilities. Shot at comedy clubs across the country Look Who's Laughing spotlights some of the most talented and truly funny comics working today. Stars: Kathy Buckley, J.D. England, Chris Fonseca, Alex Valdez, Geri Jewell, Brett Leake. Closed Captioned. 56 minutes. Program Development Associates.

Managing Diversity

     Differences in gender, race and ethnicity are often considered a "sensitive issue" instead of a positive force in the workplace. This usually stems from the natural human tendency to judge others by preconceived notions about their attitudes and abilities. But when each individual-no matter how "different"-is judged on individual performance, the organization automatically unleashes the fullest potential in all people. This film helps viewers recognize that gender, race and ethnicity strongly influence personal values and behavior-but not capabilities. It reveals a range of human perspectives on such issues as power, authority and communication. With an understanding of these perspectives, managers are empowered to achieve clearer communication, greater rapport and hight performance within the diverse workforce. 22 minutes. CRM Learning.

Senior Solutions: Caregiving

This 17-minute video production: Demonstrates how families and service agencies can help people who are elderly deal with the limitations brought on by aging. Shows a variety of simple adaptations and devices that promote independence and quality of life. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Small Differences

What makes this professionally produced video uniquely interesting is that children played a large part in its production. Elementary and middle school children were instructed on how to use a video camera along with basic interview techniques. They interviewed and recorded each other, their parents and other adults and children with various types of physical and sensory disabilities. The original video footage was professionally edited but narrated by the children that shot it. The effort resulted in a quality production that increases understanding and awareness about disabilities and helps you promote inclusion. 20 minutes. Program Development Associates.

Students and Assistive Technology: Meeting the Need

Helpful Hints for Parents and Consumers. This 8-minute video program: Demonstrates many kinds of assistive technology available for students with disabilities. Discusses how technology and services are defined and requires under IDEA and addresses several common concerns. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Teamwork in Crisis: The Miracle of Flight 232

This powerful video shows what started out as a very ordinary flight on a United Airlines DC-10 turn into a catastrophic situation where teamwork helped achieve a miraculous outcome. CRM Learning.

Technology and Self-advocacy: a Bridge to Independence

This 10-minute video program: Examines the impact technology has on our lives through interviews with U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary, Judy Heumann, and other individuals with disabilities. Discusses the need to be a self advocate for policy change at the local, state, and national level. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities

The Abilene Paradox: Second Edition

Jump in the car and hit the road to Abilene. What you'll find is a road littered with anger, frustration, blame and failure. It's a journey during which deeply heald, logical values fall victim to group dynamics; a road that takes you to group concensus, but a consensus opposite of what the group truly believes. 26 minutes. CRM Learning.

The Americans with Disabilities Act: a New Era

This 16-minute video program: Provides an important overview of each title in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Discusses employment, reasonable accommodations, undue hardship and economic and social benefits of hiring individuals with disabilities. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

The Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace

Once an attitude virus begins to spread, it can become an epidemic in no time flat. Productivity suffers and so do invidual workers. There's no doubt that today's workfoce is expecially susceptible.  With CRM's newly revised The Attitude Virus: Curing Negativity in the Workplace, you will learn how to vaccinate your organization from this potentially devastating threat. An attitude virus could be spreading through your workforce as you read this. 20 minutes. CRM Learning.

The Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities

Literally tens of thousands of people have learned and laughed with The Ten Commandments of Communicating With People With Disabilities. It's training that uses humorous vignettes to deliver its disability awareness message. With over 53 million Americans having a disability, large corporations as well as small companies use this outstanding video to train employees, improve customer service and avoid losing talented employees due to ignorance or awkwardness. Human service agencies get "double duty" from this program when they utilize it to train their own staff and the community about disability etiquette. 26 minutes. Program Development Associates.

The Power of Independence

This 28-minute video program: Illustrates the importance of technology for people with disabilities. Discusses legislation, employment, and the Utah Assistive Technology Program.

The Pygmalion Effect

It's a fact. Limited expectations bring limited results, high expectations lead to exceptional results. The phenomenon is known as the Pygmalion Effect and it has been documented numerous times in both business and education. CRM Learning.

The Sky's the Limit

This 10-minute award-winning video: Shows children and adults participating in all kinds of recreational activities, including hang gliding, skiing, tennis, bicycling, and hiking. Discusses how recreation impacts a person's entire life. People with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities emphasize the importance of focusing on the things they can do. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

Twitch and Shout

This award-winning documentary provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourette Syndrome (TS), a genetic disorder that can cause a bizarre range of involuntary movements, vocalizations, and compulsions. Through the eyes of a photojournalist with TS, the film introduces viewers to others who have this puzzling disorder, including a professional basketball player, an artist, an actress, and a lumberjack. It's an emotionally absorbing, sometimes unsettling, and finally uplifting program about people who must contend with a society that often sees them as crazy or bad, and with a body and mind that won't always do what they are told. Fanlight Productions.

Understanding the ADA: A Four-part Training Course

Session One - Introduction and Overview
Session Two- Employment
Session Three - Facility Accessibility, Transportation, Tax Incentives
Session Four- Program Access, Effective Communication, Review

This four-part video training course: Outlines the Americans with Disabilities Act. Length of videos not available. Utah Assistive Technology Program; Center for Persons with Disabilities.

When Billy Broke His Head and Other Tales of Wonder

When Billy Golfus, an award-winning radio journalist, was brain damaged as a result of a motor scooter accident ten years ago, he became one of the 43 million Americans with disabilities-this country's largest and most invisible minority. In this irreverent, first-person road movie, Golfus, a sort of underground Charles Kuralt, goes on the road to meet people with disabilities around the country, and witness first hand the strength and anger that is forging a new civil rights movement.   When Billy Broke His Head blends humor with politics, and individual experience with a chorus of voices to explore what it is really like to live with a disability in America - where pervasive discrimination and bureaucratic "helping" systems too often keep people with disabilities trapped in a labyrinth of government rules and legislated poverty. As Billy says, "this ain't exactly your inspirational cripple story." It's a documentary with an attitude, which will entertain, enlighten and might even enrage its viewers. 57 minutes. Fanlight Productions.