NEW AUDIO-VISUAL ACQUISITIONS FALL 1987

Consumer and Job Preparation for Adults with Special Needs: 140 slides; 1 sound cassette; 1 videocassette 58 mins. This program explains the use of learning contracts to plan and

implement educational programs that will help students with special needs participate in specific work or activities.

Controlling Transmission of Infection VHS 29 mins. + study guide and post test

This program provides basic information regarding measures that must be taken to prevent transmission of infection, potential sources of infecting organisms, the means of transmission and the susceptible host.

D.E.S.: An Uncertain Legacy VHS 55 mins.

From 1941 to 1971, several million pregnant women were given D.E.S., a synthetic estrogen prescribed to prevent miscarriages. Today, cancer and other medical problems are appearing in some of the children of women who took the drug. This documentary focusses on a young D.E.S. daughter who has cancer and who, with her mother, founded the first D.E.S. action group in Canada to alert the public to the drug's potential health hazards. The film puts the whole phenomenon of prescription drugs and women into historical perspective, and raises the issues of commer- cialism and sexism in the medical and health-care system. To-day, although it is banned for use during pregnancy, D.E.S. and D.E.S.-type drugs are still used in estrogen-replacement therapy, in the morning after pill, as a fertility drug, and

as a lactation suppressant for new mothers.

Discovering Electronic Music VHS 23 mins.

This film shows something of the physical basis of music and how it can be created and altered by electronic means.

Includes music from a sound synthesizer and computer-controlled music.

Discovering Jazz VHS 22 mins. This film traces the history of jazz from its roots in 19th century Black America. Examines Dixieland, blues, bop, swing, funky and other forms of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic freedom.

Discovering the Music of Africa VHS 22 mins.

This film describes music and rhythms of Africa and how they are used both as music and means of communication. Demon- | strates the complex rhythmical music of bells, the rattles

and the drums. Shows several traditional dances.