Reaction Paper About The Movie Radio

For my outside assignment I got permission to do the movie report option on Radio. The entire movie revolves around the character Radio, who has a mental disability, and Coach Jones. Their story starts when an annoyed player on Coach Jones team decides to take revenge on Radio for taking a ball instead of tossing it to him. Coach Jones puts an end to the torment and slowly convinces Radio to come around to help with practices. As Radio gets more involved with the team he opens up more, and is more involved in the community. Although this is a nice change for Radio other members of the community view it as a nuance and try to punish Radio being a part of “normal society.” Through all the troubles caused by some members of the town Coach Jones sticks by Radio and defends him when necessary. The end of the movie shows Radio getting a high school diploma. I think the movie did a good job at portraying the life of Radio with his social/intellectual disability. Although in the movie it never says what disability Radio has it is clear that he has one. Radio is seen having problems with “exhibiting inappropriate social behavior”, “modeling behavior of others rather than relying on [his] own judgments”, and having …show more content…
It would make it easier, because people would understand that to best help students with a disability you need the whole community behind them. Also they would know that just because they have a label of someone with a disability does not mean that label is all that they are. It would make it harder because if people believe that students with disabilities need to be constantly watched or they will get in trouble, then the student may start to believe that as well and wonder if they can do anything right. It would also make it harder because they would be in constant fear that the student would not be able to handle themselves if upset so they may avoid