Barbara Jordan Award
Barbara Jordan Award
Is a short documentary that profiles two children with dyslexia and their experience at the Scottish Rite Learning Center in Austin, Texas. I co-produced it with Pat Peyton. It won a Barbara Jordan Media Award which was presented at a ceremony in Arlington, Texas on Friday, June 12, 2009. Here’s information from the governor’s office:
About the Barbara Jordan Media Awards
In 1982, the Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities created the media relations program which includes a series of prestigious annual awards recognizing outstanding contributions by individuals and organizations of the communications media. In 1998, the Committee added a high school student subcategory to the Barbara Jordan Awards competition in an effort to encourage and educate a new generation of journalists. Contributions are recognized for eliminating attitudinal, social, and physical barriers and encouraging accurate and progressive portrayals of people with disabilities.
The Barbara Jordan Media Awards recognize representatives of the communications media in the fields of print, radio, television, advertising, photojournalism, public relations, audio visual, and special contributions for increasing public understanding of the abilities and potential of people with disabilities.
Changing Children’s Lives
Donna
Anderson
Pat
Peyton
Alice
Marsel
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