SpecialQuest

Video Information

Playtime: 9 min 4 sec

Volume Title: Including Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities

Session: Adults with Disabilities: Creating a Long-Term Vision

Video Description

This award-winning video, Ted Polito Jr.: An American Man, illustrates how people with disabilities make positive contributions to their families, communities, and society. Ted and his parents share their view of his life as a child with Down Syndrome in inclusive programs and now as an adult who is employed as a tour guide in the rotunda of the Colorado State capital building. Ted and his family are true role models for the possibilities of life for young children with disabilities and their families. Ted Polito, Jr.: An American Man was developed for SpecialQuest in 2000. It won an Award of Excellence, the highest honor, in the 2002 Videographer Awards, an international awards program created by communications professionals to honor talented individuals and companies in the video production field.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will recognize the value of learning from individuals with disabilities.

Participants will realize how important it is to develop long-term visions for infants and toddlers with disabilities.

Participants will recognize that involving adults with disabilities in all phases of their program has a positive impact on the program, the children, the families, and the service providers.

Participants will discuss how they will take actions to involve adults with disabilities in their programs.