Portrait Of Disadvantaged Child : Tommy Knight

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

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