providing multi-sensory environments for special-needs children, started by sandra fornes and bud kirchnerand while we were working on that documentary that we're preparing on the hidden angel foundation, we met some hidden angels. we met some remarkable people in alabama who have that marvellous sixth sense where special-needs children are concerned. they can get them to talk, express themselves, they can bring out that great sense of humour, and they do it with their own sense of humour and their own sense of humanity. here, then, this week, is dr. jan rowe, professor of occupational therapy at the university of alabama, with her story. dr. rowe, i think medicine and all the health sciences can be rather proud of the advances made in our treatment of children in paediatrics over the years. there was a time... i mean, you read these horror stories of the 19th century where children were just seen as a nuisance and little adults, and when they had an illness to go with that, it was even worse. but from where you sit, how has paediatrics evolved these past few years? - well, there's been su