Comments on: Barney Can Wait

By: Amazing What a Little Tape Can Do

Amazing What a Little Tape Can Do — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:50:42 +0000

[...] night, after we got home, Charlie requested the scissors and a roll of Scotch tape to fix an old Barney CD. A small piece had broken off, right where there was a picture of Barney in his purple glory. [...]

By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:17:16 +0000

No Barney here but Thomas, Elmo’s World and Teletubbies. We have the Thomas videos but he likes the control he has with youtube.

By: Bonnie Sayers

Bonnie Sayers — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:42:33 +0000

Sometimes I put on Barney since it airs at 6:30 here and that is around time he is getting ready for bed. My home page is amazon and the other AM they had Barney Christmas Star recommended to me since I had been viewing halloween videos. Matt taps the screen and then I click on and makebigger for him. That seem to be enough for now, although last two videos he did that with I bought.

Nick uses youtbube for cats, big cats, and dinosaur videos. Sometimes he leaves comments that look odd under my id of autismfamily.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:42:11 +0000

I have the Firefox add-on but didn’t download the Barney videos before they disappeared. Am going to look for Perian……… thanks!

Actually it’s been ok with the videos not available anymore. Charlie likes to see them but they also can be over-stimulating. He’s been going through an old collection of Barney CDs and singing the songs.

@laurentius-rex, I think the memory of the songs (aural memory) is strongest for Charlie. He likes the videos but after a while just wants to see the same clips over and over—-to some degree, photos and pictures of Barney seem to be much preferred.

By: Janice

Janice — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:22:54 +0000

Autistic youngest is a big Youtube fan. She was almost an addict at times due to her OCD tendencies to want to watch and rewatch certain videos (otherwise “something bad” would happen). Teaching her to be able to walk away from that compulsion wasn’t easy: I understand your fear with Charlie being hooked into a permanent fixation. I’m glad that he enjoyed revisiting Barney but I’m even happier he was able to manage without those videos when push came to shove!

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:30:51 +0000

Myself, I once went on a Sesame Street nostalgia search on YouTube

…try doing a search on the Muppet Show. Waldorf and Statler, the Swedish Chef, and Animal are just as awesome as they ever were.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:26:07 +0000

I should add (whoops) that you have to copy and paste the video’s URL to keepvid.com for it to work, but I’ve used it to find realia for my class’s current events newspaper for months without a hitch.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:23:58 +0000

Keepvid.com allows you to download vids in mp4 format, which Quicktime will play without a problem.

(Myself, I once went on a Sesame Street nostalgia search on YouTube…from back when Ernie and Bert went camping and everyone thought Snuffy was Big Bird’s imaginary friend. )

By: codeman38

codeman38 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:59:46 +0000

VLC player can play FLV files as well.

And on Mac, QuickTime can play FLV with a free plugin called Perian.

(Yes, I’m going off on complete tangents now…)

By: David N. Andrews M. Ed. (Distinction)

David N. Andrews M. Ed. (Distinction) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:14:23 +0000

“However there is an addon to Firefox, which you just click and it downloads the video to flv format.”

Real Player and WMP will play them. The new versions anyway.