Portrait of a Disadvantaged Child - Tommy Knight

Duration: 0:22:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1950

Creator: CRM/McGraw-Hill Films | McGraw-Hill Book Company | Vision Associates

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Presents the picture of an inner city child's special problems, needs, and strengths. Explores the reasons for the difficulties in learning encountered by thee children with emphasis on environmental effects. Points out the individuality of these children and their need for individualized treatment if they are to achieve their potential and contribute to society as effective citizens., Documents a day in the life of an inner-city child, Tommy Knight, focusing on his special problems, needs, and strengths. Points out factors hindering Tommy's ability to learn and describes the home life and parental attitudes of disadvantaged children, showing that some homes are supportive and others neglectful. Makes clear that these children are not a nameless, faceless mass, but individuals with problems that must be treated as such if they are to become effective citizens. From the Teaching the Disadvantaged Child series. Dated, but of historical interest.

Complete Record: , Presents the picture of an inner city child's special problems, needs, and strengths. Explores the reasons for the difficulties in learning encountered by thee children with emphasis on environmental effects. Points out the individuality of these children and their need for individualized treatment if they are to achieve their potential and contribute to society as effective citizens., , Documents a day in the life of an inner-city child, Tommy Knight, focusing on his special problems, needs, and strengths. Points out factors hindering Tommy's ability to learn and describes the home life and parental attitudes of disadvantaged children, showing that some homes are supportive and others neglectful. Makes clear that these children are not a nameless, faceless mass, but individuals with problems that must be treated as such if they are to become effective citizens. From the Teaching the Disadvantaged Child series. Dated, but of historical interest.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.