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Post by librarylady on Feb 17, 2017 3:55:59 GMT
Anyone else watching this one?
We have seen 3 episodes and rather like it. I also like the fact that a child with CP is featured.
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Post by jeany on Feb 17, 2017 4:16:48 GMT
Love it!
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Post by marmargirl on Feb 17, 2017 4:19:15 GMT
I've watched all of the episodes and I love this show!
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Feb 17, 2017 4:19:57 GMT
Love it. Been watching since it premiered.
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Feb 17, 2017 4:21:05 GMT
My ODS and I watch it together. I love it.
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Post by tanya2 on Feb 17, 2017 4:26:23 GMT
love this show too
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Post by rst on Feb 17, 2017 4:30:09 GMT
We enjoy it. I have a 16 year old son who has CP, drives a power chair, and uses an aug com device for communication. This show gets it right pretty often.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2017 4:31:05 GMT
I love this show - just watched the latest episode today!
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Post by PLurker on Feb 17, 2017 4:32:14 GMT
I am enjoying it when I catch it. Well played and original for TV
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2017 4:34:21 GMT
We enjoy it. I have a 16 year old son who has CP, drives a power chair, and uses an aug com device for communication. This show gets it right pretty often. I thought I had read that somebody involved with the show (I think a writer? maybe a producer?), has a family member with CP, so has been getting a lot of things right. Interesting to hear that you think they are as well. Does your son watch the show? I don't have personal experience in this arena, but even from my perspective it seems they do a good job of balancing the difficulties, humor, and just every day life. I thought the episode about "inspiration porn" was funny and I had not seen that topic tackled like that before. |
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Post by rst on Feb 17, 2017 5:34:25 GMT
My son does watch it. In the episode where JJ's aide lets him drive the family van -- my son shrieked with delight. I was all -- honey, you do realize that it's not realistic, for one thing, how did he get his wheelchair in behind the driver's seat. My son gave me an absolutely withering look, like, "mom-- allow me to enjoy this fiction." Daniel also really enjoys the school scenes.
Obviously some things are really glossed over. To get a replacement wheelchair when one breaks? that would be the work of 6 to 8 months, not just a wild and wacky visit to the local insurance rep's office. Programing and learning your way around a new aug com device? Yeah. Lots of work, and not a skill that you just pick up in a day or two. But it's fiction, it's fun, and it's respectful of people with special needs being fully human individuals, so it's all good.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2017 5:40:29 GMT
My son does watch it. In the episode where JJ's aide lets him drive the family van -- my son shrieked with delight. I was all -- honey, you do realize that it's not realistic, for one thing, how did he get his wheelchair in behind the driver's seat. My son gave me an absolutely withering look, like, "mom-- allow me to enjoy this fiction." Daniel also really enjoys the school scenes. Obviously some things are really glossed over. To get a replacement wheelchair when one breaks? that would be the work of 6 to 8 months, not just a wild and wacky visit to the local insurance rep's office. Programing and learning your way around a new aug com device? Yeah. Lots of work, and not a skill that you just pick up in a day or two. But it's fiction, it's fun, and it's respectful of people with special needs being fully human individuals, so it's all good. I do like that they treat him as a regular teen who happens to have CP and not the other way around. Glad your family enjoys the show.  |
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Post by jackietex on Feb 17, 2017 6:03:49 GMT
I loved the Thanksgiving episode when they talked about the few benefits of having a kid with a disability.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Feb 17, 2017 12:35:22 GMT
Well, I love Minnie Driver, so there's that. But yeah, the show is good. I love the relationship between JJ and his aide, and how they work through difficulties. I also love the dad's character and how he struggles with things with respect to all of the kids.
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Post by lisae on Feb 17, 2017 12:48:19 GMT
The premiere was hilarious. It's been good since, some episodes are funnier than others. I do like all the characters and their quirks.
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Post by littlemama on Feb 17, 2017 12:54:41 GMT
We enjoy it. I have a 16 year old son who has CP, drives a power chair, and uses an aug com device for communication. This show gets it right pretty often. . Interesting to hear that you think they are as well. Does your son watch the show? I don't have personal experience in this arena, but even from my perspective it seems they do a good job of balancing the difficulties, humor, and just every day life. I thought the episode about "inspiration porn" was funny and I had not seen that topic tackled like that before. The actor who plays JJ has CP and I believe they have run things past him and his family to make sure they are relatively accurate.
Overall we love the show - some episodes are hits and some are misses, but that is the same with every show.
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Post by scrappert on Feb 17, 2017 13:11:58 GMT
I really love this show. I love the humor of it. One of my favorites right now.
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Post by MerryMom on Feb 17, 2017 13:54:50 GMT
I've watched each episode, and I think it is becoming a little "one note".
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2017 14:18:33 GMT
I thought I had read that somebody involved with the show (I think a writer? maybe a producer?), has a family member with CP, so has been getting a lot of things right. Interesting to hear that you think they are as well. Does your son watch the show? I don't have personal experience in this arena, but even from my perspective it seems they do a good job of balancing the difficulties, humor, and just every day life. I thought the episode about "inspiration porn" was funny and I had not seen that topic tackled like that before. The actor who plays JJ has CP and I believe they have run things past him and his family to make sure they are relatively accurate.
Overall we love the show - some episodes are hits and some are misses, but that is the same with every show.
I know that the actor has CP (which is great they casted him), but I thought there was somebody else who created the show that had familiarity with CP. I will have to look (or maybe I really am just losing my marbles!). |
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Feb 17, 2017 14:20:53 GMT
I thought I had read that somebody involved with the show (I think a writer? maybe a producer?), has a family member with CP, so has been getting a lot of things right. Interesting to hear that you think they are as well. Does your son watch the show? I don't have personal experience in this arena, but even from my perspective it seems they do a good job of balancing the difficulties, humor, and just every day life. I thought the episode about "inspiration porn" was funny and I had not seen that topic tackled like that before. The actor who plays JJ has CP and I believe they have run things past him and his family to make sure they are relatively accurate.
Overall we love the show - some episodes are hits and some are misses, but that is the same with every show.
I found this: Created by Scott Silveri (Friends), who comes from a family with a special-needs child (and who employs writers who have experience in similar situations), and starring actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, Speechless is a series that's funny and thoughtful and quirkily different enough not to implode into, as Silveri called it recently, "the disability show." |
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Post by kkooch on Feb 17, 2017 14:21:41 GMT
My DD (25) got me watching this show. It can go overboard some but definitely one of the better funny shows you can enjoy with your family.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 17, 2017 15:32:47 GMT
I was reading about the young man who plays JJ on the show. He has CP, but is not as disabled as JJ.
The real person CAN speak and he said sometimes he just wants to blurt out the words.
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Post by perumbula on Feb 17, 2017 15:39:39 GMT
It's my favorite comedy on right now. The family is a fun mix of personalities. Each of them sits on the edge of an identifiable sitcom stereotype, but most of them are much more nuanced. (Minnie Driver's character is pretty one note as the crazy, over the top mom.) Cynical Sister, Earnest Boy, Overwhelmed Dad, sure, but they all manage to be much deeper than that.
And it's funny. I love it.
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Feb 17, 2017 15:57:33 GMT
We're a special needs family and we watch and love the show. My typical daughter says it's the first time she's ever seen her family on tv. |
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Feb 17, 2017 16:24:35 GMT
Well, I love Minnie Driver, so there's that. But yeah, the show is good. I love the relationship between JJ and his aide, and how they work through difficulties. I also love the dad's character and how he struggles with things with respect to all of the kids. I love that she gets to use her natural accent on this show. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 17, 2017 17:54:12 GMT
I really wanted to watch it and for some reason I never picked up on it.. I am definitely going to find it somewhere and start from the beginning.
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Post by cycworker on Feb 17, 2017 22:52:03 GMT
My son does watch it. In the episode where JJ's aide lets him drive the family van -- my son shrieked with delight. I was all -- honey, you do realize that it's not realistic, for one thing, how did he get his wheelchair in behind the driver's seat. My son gave me an absolutely withering look, like, "mom-- allow me to enjoy this fiction." Daniel also really enjoys the school scenes. Obviously some things are really glossed over. To get a replacement wheelchair when one breaks? that would be the work of 6 to 8 months, not just a wild and wacky visit to the local insurance rep's office. Programing and learning your way around a new aug com device? Yeah. Lots of work, and not a skill that you just pick up in a day or two. But it's fiction, it's fun, and it's respectful of people with special needs being fully human individuals, so it's all good. Vans can definitely be rigged yo to allow driving from a wheelchair. The seat is removed. I've seen it. I personally transfer and put the chair in the back seat. The bit with the replacement chair didn't phase me either. Maybe that's a Canada/US difference? Because I've had chairs break and gotten immediate loaners. They are rentals while the chair I'd repaired or replaced. store just sends the bill to the Ministry office. Have to go through the same store as where the original store was purchased. They have you on file. |
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Post by honeyb on Feb 17, 2017 23:10:33 GMT
We love this show! Earlier in the season there was a gymnast that broke both her legs and was temporarily casted and in a wheelchair. When those few episodes aired, my daughter was also in double casts (she had surgery- a bilateral gastrocnemius recession)and was confined to a wheelchair (luckily also temporarily). It was fun to see a character that was sharing the same life experience as my daughter at the same time.
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Post by rst on Feb 17, 2017 23:37:46 GMT
I know it's possible to drive from a wheelchair, but it's an adaptation that has to be installed, not a spur of the moment whimsical thing. Tie downs have to be mounted with plates welded to a reinforced bar in the frame. It's a fairly big deal. Usually there have to be adaptations to the foot petals too -- either blocks or hand controls. So -- unlike the show presented it, it's not something done on a whim. But I appreciated the thematic element and grant liberal poetic licence since it furthered the theme.
I guess I can see an off-the-shelf chair being replaced quickly, but my son's is all custom rehab. To create his seat they take a mold his body because of his various orthopedic issues, then the mold is sent off (to Canada) where a custom formed seat is manyufactured. That process takes a minimum of 6 weeks. Then, once it comes back to us, we have to do pressure mapping with a therapist and rehab specialist to make sure there are not significant pressure points, and as there usually are, the custom seat is then shaved down until it fits perfectly. There is no way that he could sit in an off-the shelf seat, and there is no way that a standard power steering set-up could work -- we have to do it all custom. Even our friends who are not as involved and "custom" have to have many, many fittings and adjustments to get a workable chair.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 18, 2017 0:55:35 GMT
I love it so much! Especially how it focuses on everyone! It's not based around the special needs kid. You see how everyone in the family works together. The struggles *they have* too.
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