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How Are the Children?
Tuesdays at 1 p.m. EST Brattleboro Community Radio
on WVEW 107.7 lp FM streaming at www.wvew.org
and BCTV’s Channel 10 audio feed
If you have ideas for guests, music, stories please contact
Mary at mary(at)healthymediachoices.org
2008
June
24 Joan Almon, Director of the Alliance for Childhood
Putting play back into childhood
17 Nancy Carlsson-Paige PhD. Professor at Lesley College, Cambridge
Author of Taking Back Childhood:Helping Your Kids
Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media Saturated, Violence Filled World
May
27 Allen Kanner, PhD
Co-founder of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
“Corporate Free Speech: A Progressive Trap” and
20 Mike Brody, M.D., child psychiatrist
Chair, Television and Media Committee of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
One of the authors of AAP statement on Children and Media
13 Frank Baker: Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Resources for Media Literacy K-12
Author: Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies
Cable in the Classroom advertising-free video resources:
April
29
22 World in Tune - Integrated Curriculum
Creators: Carmela Mercuri and Robin Smith
www.carousel-music.com/tune.html
15 Prevent Child Abuse Vermont
Noreen Lake nlake@pcavt.org
Will be rescheduled: Ms Lake is ill
8 Autism Spectrum -
Support in School and Community
Barbara Saunders, Brattleboro Schools
Pediatrician: What Parents Should Know About Autism
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88098454
Autistic Community Seeks acceptance, Not Cures
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488463
Speaking of Faith: Being Autistic, Being Human
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/beingautistic/
Vermont Public Television - resources
http://www.vpt.org/programs/publicsquare_apr06.html
Support Groups
Windham County
Vermont Autism Resource Center
Meeting/Support Group
Monthly meetings at the Dummerston Community Center, W. Dummerston.
For more information, call 802-257-9159 or e-mail info (at) vtautism.org
1 COaMUNITY.org
Jeanne Marie Southerland, Executive Direcot
Girls Initiate mentoring program http://girls-initiate.org
March
25 Diane Levin, author of many books including
“Remote Control Childhood”,
“War Play Dilemma” (with N. Carlsson-Page)
and “So Sexy, So Soon”, coming in August, 2008
Relevant article:
www.commercialfreechildhood.org/articles/4thsummit/levin.htm
18 Vermont Independent Media
Youth programs: writing lab, youth writing wanted
Media Mentoring Program
Media Literacy in Elementary School (rescheduled
11 Angel Boy Art
Art in the lives of physically and developmentally
challenged children
Sara Vitale, President of Angel Boy Art, Inc.
another source of information, research: www.art-therapy.us
4 Hardy Girls, Healthy Women
Megan Williams, Executive Director www.hghw.org
February
26 Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed. D., author
Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls
From Adversaries to Allies:Curriculum, others
5 Citizen Journalism and Families
Christopher Grotke, www.iBrattleboro.com
January
22 Storytelling as an instrument of healing
Lorna Czarnota, Buffalo NY
8 Motherhood, Isolation and Worry
Roseanne Weston, former Board Member,
National Association of Mothers Centers
Article on Fear and Silence:
http://www.mothersmovement.org/essays/RWeston0308.htm
1 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Music for Peace
Paulette Meier, conflict transformaiton through music
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