Fundraising Movie Night
The Speech Pathology Association of La Trobe (SALT) is proud to present a charity screening of the film 'The Black Balloon'. This award winning Australian film follows sixteen year old Thomas, and his relationships with those around him, including his brother Charlie who is on the Autism Spectrum. Film Australia reports that "Down’s film’s greatest strength is in its frank and unflinching observation of autism, in moments of abjectness and social confrontation, neatly underpinning and usurping the more expected cliches of its background boy meets girl story. The film feels like it crosses the line from a movie-lite or semi-tragic representation of autism, and into displaying it in a way which is awkward, uncompromised and unglamorised for the screen."
Profits from this night will go to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh, to help to buy basic supplies for their Speech and Language Therapy clinic in Dhaka. More information is available at http://www.crp-bangladesh.org/
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Profits from this night will go to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh, to help to buy basic supplies for their Speech and Language Therapy clinic in Dhaka. More information is available at http://www.crp-bangladesh.org/
Stay tuned for further details!