The Nature of Things

Contact (20x5)

Air date: Nov 21, 1979

A one-hour film about a new method of treatment for autistic children, hitherto thought to be hopeless cases. Filmed in Toronto, it shows how techniques developed in the U.S. by Barry and Suzi Kaufman, themselves parents of an autistic Child, have been adopted for use in an experimental program headed by Fern Levitt, a 24-year-old psychology graduate of York University.