Tag Archive for Autism

Village Cinemas and Sensory Friendly Movie Sessions

Since September 2012, Village Cinemas has screened over 200 ‘sensory friendly’ movie sessions on the big screen, welcoming over 60,000 autistic people and their families to the cinema. Screening every month, sensory friendly sessions allow families to enjoy their favourite film in a safe and accepting environment, with the cinema lights turned up and the…

DAD: A film about autism and fatherhood

Review by Alex Edwards I finally got around to watching this Australian documentary this morning on Autism and found it quite good. It follows the father’s perspective of having children with autism. It speaks about anger, denial and eventually the acceptance and beauty that can come out of having a child on the Spectrum. Hopefully…