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Discussing psychosocial aspects of disability, this program with psychologist Robbin Miller reviews various perceptions, mythologies, and stereotypes of individuals with a disability.

Were you taught that "wheelchair-bound" was an acceptable term to call a person in a wheelchair? In this program, three individuals with a disability (Joe Bellil, Mike Kennedy, and Sonya Perduta) and psychologist Robbin Miller re-educate viewers and teach them proper terminology to use when interacting with persons with disabilities. They also discuss the history behind derogatory terms relating to disability.

Society often perceives people with disabilities as asexual and non-social. Is this really true? In this program, psychologist Robbin Miller talks to Sonia Perduta, Mike Kennedy, and Joe Bellil about perceptions, mythologies, and stereotypes describing persons with disabilities. They discuss new ways of understanding and seeing positive images of persons with disabilities.

Researcher and disability rights activist Jessica Murray, along with a diverse group of activists, investigates accessibility in the New York City Transit System over a two year period, while under the shadow of her own progression into disability.

Many children face challenges far beyond the usual stresses and strains of growing up. In this episode of Scientific American Frontiers, Alda meets several kids who are growing up different, along with the doctors and researchers who are trying to mitigate the difficulties they face. The program looks at the controversial use of cochlear implants to give some hearing to profoundly deaf kids, the latest in augmentative communication technology to provide...

Finding the Way Home highlights the painful realities of the eight million children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world, focusing on the stories of eight children who have been reunited with family members or placed in loving foster homes after experiencing the trauma of institutionalization. The film shares insights from families, social workers and dedicated foster parents to illustrate what it truly means to be home. Heartbreaking,...

America's epidemic of gun violence gets plenty of coverage, but we don't focus nearly enough on the victims living with the life-long impacts of that violence. We have the story of what happens when one of those survivors meets the person who pulled the trigger. In this NewsHour program, William Brangham tells how an unlikely reunion recently came about in Florida.

This is a lyrical portrait of eight nursing home residents who make a pilgrimage to Israel. We accompany these individuals across stunning Israeli sites and landscapes, from mountains to desert, but the film is less a story about tourists in a foreign land than it is a meditation on the sanctity of the human experience and the wisdom acquired over a lifetime. Surprisingly uplifting, Next Year, Jerusalem is a true exploration of living and dying, hope...

This is the courageous story of Shakuntala Verma, a government social worker in India, and her undaunted crusade against child marriages. All she wanted to do was to save young children from being married off by their families. She spent ten days explaining to a family why this practice was not good. But on the eve of the planned marriage, a man came to her house and hacked at her head and arms, leaving her hands hanging by mere threads of skin and...

This film is an underground adventure that traces one man's risky journey into the world of shamanic ritual. Dimitri Mugianis had been addicted to heroin for 20 years when a single dose of ibogaine, a powerful hallucinogen derived from the root of a West African plant, stopped his addiction cold. Filmmaker Michel Negroponte (Methadonia, Jupiter's Wife) enters the ibogaine subculture, and follows Dimitri over a period of three years as he takes drug...