Animal healers

Green Chimneys is a special school 65 miles north of New York City, catering for children with emotional, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. It's an unusual school, in that it has a 165-acre farm with 200 farm animals, and a wildlife rehabilitation centre. Central to the school'...

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Other Authors: ITV Granada Anglia.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: [England] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2006.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (13 min.).
Previously released as DVD.
Series: Inspirations ; 1.
Education in video.
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Summary: Green Chimneys is a special school 65 miles north of New York City, catering for children with emotional, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. It's an unusual school, in that it has a 165-acre farm with 200 farm animals, and a wildlife rehabilitation centre. Central to the school's ethos is a belief in the therapeutic power of the interaction between children and animals. Assistance-dog training classes are one example of the way animal-related activities are woven into daily life. The dogs learn new skills, while their trainers, the pupils, learn how to bond with other living things. The learning-with-nature ethos extends to the classroom, where we see a science lesson that is part of a project on raising brook trout. And in the open air, pupils help to release rescued animals back into the wild.
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Green Chimneys is a special school 65 miles north of New York City, catering for children with emotional, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. It's an unusual school, in that it has a 165-acre farm with 200 farm animals, and a wildlife rehabilitation centre. Central to the school's ethos is a belief in the therapeutic power of the interaction between children and animals. Assistance-dog training classes are one example of the way animal-related activities are woven into daily life. The dogs learn new skills, while their trainers, the pupils, learn how to bond with other living things. The learning-with-nature ethos extends to the classroom, where we see a science lesson that is part of a project on raising brook trout. And in the open air, pupils help to release rescued animals back into the wild.
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (VAST: Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in English.
FLC - Alexander Street Academic Video Online license.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (13 min.).
Previously released as DVD.