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Making Sense: Deaf Children and the Choices Their Parents Face

Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Alex not Amy-Growing up transgender in the rural West

From: Denise Dowling

A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more

Hidden in Plain Sight: Sensory Processing Disorder

From: Benedict Carrizzo

Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford

(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more

Teaching Teachers

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford

This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

The Moral Imperative of Music Education - Spirit of Harmony Foundation-Tod Rundgren

From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

The Spirit of Harmony Foundation was formed under the direction of Rock Star Todd Rundgren and his associates in order to promote the enduring impo...

The Big Test

From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity

Caption: Here, the kids line up outside Congress on their first day., Credit: Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio

For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...