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Nick News Autism Segment

This 5 1/2 minute video can now be seen by ALL families and schools with internet access.  Nick News (seen on the Nickelodeon channel) first showed this segment 2 years ago.  Although its duration is just over 5 minutes, the segment says a lot and is in kid-friendly language. Autism is explained from the perspective of the sibling, the classmate, a parent, teacher, professional, as well as the autistic child. 

Who should see the video?  Anyone who needs a beginning understanding of autism - especially all school-age neurotypical children, who are exposed to autism as schools progress toward mainstreaming more autistic children.  The video should be a “must-see” for all child-study teams, teachers and classmates of autistic children.  The segment promotes awareness and understanding.

play->   Nick News Autism Segment   <- play  
Requires 

• internet connection rate of 56 KBS
  • if the connection rate is too low, only audio will play
  • sometimes the video will appear as still shorts
• Windows Media Player or another Streaming Media Player (you can download it at Windows Media Player  (there is also a MAC version)
• If you get a "matching application not found" you need to get a media player.

Currently there are some problems with playing  on AOL.  

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PACT wishes to thank Nick News,  Nickelodeon’s Cable in the Classroom, and MTV’s legal department for the use of the video and TenTV for hosting the video stream thru PACT’s website, www.solvingthepuzzle.org

PACT wishes to thank Richard Betz at MTV, Geoff Dubrowsky, and Al Olson, PACT's webmaster for making this happen.

Finally, special thanks to PACT member Catherine Medovich for her relentless pursuit of this video clip and her drive to make it available for all to see via PACT's website.

Copyrighted information - The video stream is copyrighted material by Nickelodeon and they have generously provided it to us to help increase awareness of autism and support the autism community.  Please visit the site and tell others to visit the site and watch it as often as you like, but do not redistribute the video stream in whole or in part. We would like to keep our friends at Nickelodeon feeling that the we appreciate and respect their generosity. In the future when they have material of this nature perhaps again they will be kind and share it with us.

Revised: October 16, 2007

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