The film, presented by Boston public media institution GBH. Sign up for Disability Scoop's free email newsletter to get the latest developmental disability news sent straight to your inbox. PBS has slated the premiere of the documentary In a Different Key, based on the eponymous Pulitzer finalist book, for Dec. “In a Different Key” will debut on PBS stations nationwide Dec. Every community can be part of the solution for supporting people on the spectrum, including where they work, live, go to school and beyond,” said John Donvan, a longtime network television correspondent who produced and co-directed the film and wrote the book with Zucker. “We hope the film touches audiences that don’t necessarily have that direct connection to autism. The film contrasts Triplett’s experience with the history of abuse and rejection faced by many people with autism. By turns intimate and panoramic, In a Different Key takes us on a journey from an era when families were shamed and children were condemned to institutions to one in which a cadre of people with autism push not simply for inclusion but for a new understanding of autism: as difference rather than disability. He continues to live in the small Mississippi town where he was born over 90 years ago, in a community that has embraced and supported him, with one resident declaring in the documentary “He’s our guy.” Triplett was “case 1” in some of the earliest published works about autism.
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