Refrigerator mothers /
From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors presumed that the bizarre behaviors of autistic children--rigid rituals, difficulty with speech, extreme self-isolation--stemmed from their mothers' emoti...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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[Brooklyn] :
[Distributed by] Fanlight Productions,
2002.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors presumed that the bizarre behaviors of autistic children--rigid rituals, difficulty with speech, extreme self-isolation--stemmed from their mothers' emotional frigidity. We now know that autism is a brain disorder, not the result of poor parenting. But for a whole generation of women branded as cold "refrigerator mothers," the damage had already been done. |
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| Item Description: | Previously released by: Kartemquin Educational Films, c2002. Resource page includes the option of making a clip. Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video file (53 min.) : digital, sd., col. with b&w sequences. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player. |
| Audience: | Grade level: college/adult/professional. |
| Production Credits: | Executive producer, co-producer, Gordon Quinn; music, Hannah Marcus; camera, Tsuyoshi Kimoto, Gordon Quinn. |
| Access: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
