Step inside the groundbreaking medical frontier that is fetal surgery with Twice Born, a gripping PBS mini-series that takes an intimate, inside look at the Special Delivery Unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where rare surgeries are done on babies still inside their mothers' wombs.. With exclusive access to the elite unit, (where the production crew was embedded for 15 months), you'll live with the expecting parents who all face a gut-wrenching...

This program offers proven tips and techniques for integrating students with Asperger Syndrome and similar conditions into a mainstream classroom. It includes interviews with Psychologist Jed Baker (Director of the Social Skills Project), regular and special education teachers, parents, an instructional aide, and a child study team case manager/social worker - all describing specific steps that have worked the them in guiding and teaching middle through...

The premiere episode sets the stage for the intense and emotional stories to come. Dr. Scott Adzick, Surgeon-in-Chief at the elite Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a pioneer of fetal surgery, explains his own conviction: if you can get to babies earlier, while they are still inside their mothers, you can stop some of the damage of birth defects before it is too late..

Listen 2 Kids productions' mission is to give voice to these often overlooked heroes, the children of divorce...This 19-minute film focuses on resiliency, featuring kids coping and parents helping. While the content is fresh, one thing remains unchanged: the real experts, the kids themselves, still do the teaching.

Vaccines are widely regarded as one of the greatest achieves of modern medicine and save millions of lives every year. But there are an increasing number of families who decide, for one reason or another, not to vaccinate their children. As a result, diseases that were almost eradicated in the developed countries are returning.. We hear from various families that are against vaccination. Some of them believe in natural and alternative medicines, others...

Today, thousands of indigenous Australian children are at risk of contracting Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) from a common sore throat (Strep Throat) or from the transmission of Strep A bacterium through infectious skin sore (Scabies). If these vulnerable children are not quickly identified as being symptomatic (with fever or joint pain) and treated with penicillin, their body's autoimmune response may start mistakenly attacking their heart valves in...

This detailed and entertaining observation of preschoolers shows them engaged in activities that exemplify the extraordinary advancements in language and literacy that children make at this age. We also take a look at the natural activities children are drawn to which foster development and strategies to encourage these activities. Program includes 16 live-action clips. (Learning Seed, USA

Episode Three delivers deeper insight into the personality and motivations of Dr. Scott Adzick, who takes viewers behind the normally closed doors of his life outside the hospital. This hour features a plastic surgeon beginning to reshape baby Lilly's face, which culminates in a carefully planned reconstructive operation. This episode includes an intimate view of the much-anticipated delivery of Bobby and Shelly's baby. By the end of the hour, Shelly...

When her great-grandmother becomes ill, Charell, a young African-American girl, is taken to the home of strangers. She does not remember their names or where she lived, but she recalls the abuse and loneliness. She recalls watching her belongings being thrown into trash bags and the lies she has to tell other kids because she does not want to admit she is a foster child. She does not want to admit that her mother struggles with substance abuse, her...

Portraits of Emotion is a feature length documentary film that follows over the course of four years the life of 14-year-old Jonathan Lerman, an artistic prodigy who is diagnosed with autism, a lifelong developmental disability that affects learning, communication and social interaction. While capable of drawing astonishing portraits that capture the nuances of human emotion, Jonathan is unable to effectively verbally communicate his feelings. By...