Product Details

• Actors: John Sprecher, Eric Sprecher
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1995
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1892186101
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #572,032 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Self-help, communications, motor and social. A fun look at bathing, showering, brushing teeth, combing hair, dressing, zipping and buttoning. Speech, labeling, writing, reading, sequencing, modeling, generalization, and association to objects and actions.

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

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for such great learning resources, December 29, 1999

By A Customer

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

I can't tell you how much my two little boys with autism love these Special Kids programs! For example, Alex now enjoys taking bashes and showers (even washes his own hair), gets dressed independently, brushes his teeth better, stands still while I brush his hair, etc. Both boys penmanship has greatly improved and they enjoying writing words on their small dry erase boards with markers, along with John as he writes them on the program! Watching these wonderful, unique video programs is a great way for our children with disabilities to learn about their environment and how to cope in this confusing world. Thanks, Special Kids!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing like what I expected, July 21, 2004

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K. Playford "Mom of special boy" (Belding, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Special Kids Speech & Skill Building Videos - Getting Ready [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is nothing like what I expected. It is so simple that anyone could make a video exactly like it and save themselves $25. I have a child with Down Syndrome and it is not helpful for him at all. Sesame Street teaches him the same thing and in a more exciting way.