This is a hybrid event

Countway Library and the Disability in Medicine & Dentistry Working Group will be screening the movie The Reason I Jump. Popcorn will be served! After the screening there will be a panel discussion with Amy K. Weinstock, Gyasi Burks-Abbott and Logan Beyer. 

About the Movie: 

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, later translated into English by author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe.

If you need accommodations, please contact shahin_saberi@hms.harvard.edu.

About the Panelists:

Amy K. Weinstock
Director, Insurance Resource Center for Autism and Behavioral Health
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry
UMass Medical School

Gyasi Burks-Abbott
LEND Program Faculty, Boston Children's Hospital/UMass Boston Institute for Community Inclusion

Logan Beyer, BA
MD-PhD student, Harvard Medical School