The Resource Wretches and jabberers
Wretches and jabberers
Resource Information
The item Wretches and jabberers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Wretches and jabberers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- In Wretches and jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Growing up, Thresher and Bissonnette were presumed "retarded" and excluded from normal schooling. With limited speech, they both faced lives of social isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves. Between moving and transformative encounters with young men and women with autism, parents and students, Thresher and Bissonnette take time to explore local sights and culture; dipping and dodging through Sri Lankan traffic in motorized tuk-tuks, discussing the purpose of life with a Buddhist monk and finally relaxing in a traditional Finnish sauna. Along the way, they reunite with old friends, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and make new allies in their cause. From beginning to end, Thresher and Bissonnette inspire parents and young men and women with autism with a poignant narrative of personal struggle that always rings with intelligence, humor, hope and courage. Directed by Gerardine Wurzburg
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min., 27 sec.)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Label
- Wretches and jabberers
- Title
- Wretches and jabberers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Wretches and jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Growing up, Thresher and Bissonnette were presumed "retarded" and excluded from normal schooling. With limited speech, they both faced lives of social isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves. Between moving and transformative encounters with young men and women with autism, parents and students, Thresher and Bissonnette take time to explore local sights and culture; dipping and dodging through Sri Lankan traffic in motorized tuk-tuks, discussing the purpose of life with a Buddhist monk and finally relaxing in a traditional Finnish sauna. Along the way, they reunite with old friends, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and make new allies in their cause. From beginning to end, Thresher and Bissonnette inspire parents and young men and women with autism with a poignant narrative of personal struggle that always rings with intelligence, humor, hope and courage. Directed by Gerardine Wurzburg
- Cataloging source
- UtOrBLW
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by State of the Art in 2013
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Wurzburg, Gerardine
- Runtime
- 94
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Thresher, Tracy
- Bissonnette, Larry
- Autistic people
- Autism
- Sri Lanka
- Japan
- Finland
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Wretches and jabberers
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min., 27 sec.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
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- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1097114
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- System control number
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- (CaSfKAN)kan1097114
- (OCoLC)897770745
- 1128415
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- Wretches and jabberers
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min., 27 sec.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Available to cardholders of participating libraries only
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
-
- video
- computer
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- v
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1097114
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
-
- (CaSfKAN)kan1097114
- (OCoLC)897770745
- 1128415
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
Library Locations
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Evanston Public Library MainBorrow it1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60201, US42.048419 -87.680008
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