The movie that came to mind, when I was told that the movie has to contain a person with disabilities, was the movie Radio. I watched this film so many times in grade school, between the third grade and eighth grade I probably have seen this film a hundred times. I believe they showed us this film so we would know how to treat and how not to treat people with mental health disabilities, people who received special education services. Radio was an unliked film by the critics, Rotten Tomatoes rated the film really poorly giving it a 36% “Rotten” rating and Metacritic gave the film a 38 out of 100. Cuba Gooding Jr., the starring actor, earned an NAACP Image Award for outstanding actor in a motion picture. Also, the film box office grossing $52,333,738,
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In the first article, they are working with profound young persons. “There is still much to be understood in terms of the ways in which interpersonal interactions within music making may be beneficial for young people with profound IDD… Little is known about how or whether musical interactions might be unique or different to other pleasurable activities with an engaged interaction partner. Therefore, the aims of this study were: to explore whether there is something unique or different within music-making interactions compared to nonmusical interactions.” These people are planning to use music therapy to have interactions with others with the involvement of music. (Thompson & McFerran 3). The clients of this next article were adults with intellectual disabilities and music therapy is used here to reduce the levels of negative behavior. It is also used here to inform them about death and how to deal with them when a loved one dies. “Although there is no music therapy literature related to the bereavement of adults with ID, concepts from the existing literature may be applied to adults with ID. Musical improvisation can provide a way for a person to express emotions and ideas when one's disability prevents extensive verbal processing.” (Hoyle & McKinney 40) Hoyle and McKinney did not find any …show more content…
The film follows him, from when was being bullied by some of the football players to when he was recieveing a high school diploma. I have not made the connection till now, Radio was named “Radio” because he loved listening to music on the radio and when he did listen it made him happy like he was in another realm. Radio used music therapy on himself whenever he lost his mother to a heart-attack. Radio was a clever young man, and he loved everyone, like Coach Jones, said he showed the people in that town how to treat one another with love and care. Just because one has a cognitive disability does not mean that they do not know anything, having this disability just makes a delay in the process of
In the first article, they are working with profound young persons. “There is still much to be understood in terms of the ways in which interpersonal interactions within music making may be beneficial for young people with profound IDD… Little is known about how or whether musical interactions might be unique or different to other pleasurable activities with an engaged interaction partner. Therefore, the aims of this study were: to explore whether there is something unique or different within music-making interactions compared to nonmusical interactions.” These people are planning to use music therapy to have interactions with others with the involvement of music. (Thompson & McFerran 3). The clients of this next article were adults with intellectual disabilities and music therapy is used here to reduce the levels of negative behavior. It is also used here to inform them about death and how to deal with them when a loved one dies. “Although there is no music therapy literature related to the bereavement of adults with ID, concepts from the existing literature may be applied to adults with ID. Musical improvisation can provide a way for a person to express emotions and ideas when one's disability prevents extensive verbal processing.” (Hoyle & McKinney 40) Hoyle and McKinney did not find any …show more content…
The film follows him, from when was being bullied by some of the football players to when he was recieveing a high school diploma. I have not made the connection till now, Radio was named “Radio” because he loved listening to music on the radio and when he did listen it made him happy like he was in another realm. Radio used music therapy on himself whenever he lost his mother to a heart-attack. Radio was a clever young man, and he loved everyone, like Coach Jones, said he showed the people in that town how to treat one another with love and care. Just because one has a cognitive disability does not mean that they do not know anything, having this disability just makes a delay in the process of