Product Details

• Actors: John Sprecher
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1995
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1892186063
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #581,987 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Communications, academics, play and motor. All sorts of shapes. All kinds of colors. Speech, labeling, writing, reading, generalization and association to objects.

Special Kids is America’s original speech and skill building video programs created specifically for special needs children.

Boys and girls, from infancy through teens, with autism spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, dyslexia and other learning disabilities — from more than 50 countries — have all benefited.

First created by a parent of a boy with autism — which produced a breakthrough that generated excitement around the world — Special Kids speech and skill building video programs have been demonstrated to help many visual learners acquire verbal, reading, writing, academic, motor, play, self-help, social and interactive skills.

Special Kids 30-minute programs utilize concept-to-language association, object-to language association, action-to-language association, labeling, sequencing, modeling and generalization — video methods now proven effective in numerous university and hospital sponsored studies of high-visual special needs audiences.

Whether your special needs child is 18 months, or 18 years, active intervention is vital today — because today can be another day learning. And with Special Kids helping them, anything’s possible.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars A good remedy for insomnia, April 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Special Kids Speech & Skill Building Videos - Shapes & Colors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My toddler with Autism is a visual learner and loves videos but this one could not hold her attention more than a few minutes. It is slow and quiet, resembling a lecture. It lacks any quality of fun and is devoid of any music or cartoon characters. There is nothing in this video that I couldn't have done myself with my camcorder, and my computer.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous, fantastic, one-of-a-kind for learning challenged, January 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Special Kids Speech & Skill Building Videos - Shapes & Colors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For the past year our son has been involved in 30-40 hours of therapy each week through UCLA. We have never experienced a major breakthrough until NOW! Through Shapes & Colors, Matthew learned these concepts receptively and expressively and is also spelling them. Since then, we have ordered all Special Kids video learning programs and hope that we can continue to report IMPRESSIVE RESULTS!