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How Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City Workshop & Beyond F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (with Guides)
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How Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City Workshop & Beyond F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (with Guides) | DVD

Starring: Richard D. Lavoie
Also With: Richard D. Lavoie (Primary Contributor)

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Binding:  DVD
Run Time:  160 minutes
Format:  Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, DVD
Studio:  PBS Video
Number of Discs:  2
Sales Rank:  109,949th


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Product Description
How Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City Workshop DVD This unique program lets viewers experience the frustration, anxiety, and tension faced by children with learning disabilities. Workshop facilitator Richard Lavoie presents a series of striking simulations emulating daily experience of LD children. Teachers, social workers, and parents, workshop participants, reflect upon how the workshop changed their approach to LD children. Includes discussion of mainstreaming discipline and self-concept. Beyond F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead DVD F.A.T--Frustration, Anxiety, Tension--three all-too-familiar feelings for the families of children with learning disabilities. It is the basis for a 1987 workshop simulating the children's daily experiences. Richard Lavoie, creator of the original F.A.T. City Workshop, reviews the history and philosophy of the project, the major trends and issues in the field of learning disabilities since 1987, and the challenges ahead for parents and educators.
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