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SkillBuilding Buddies
c/o Mazzarella Media, LLC
P.O. Box 86
Bristol, CT 06011
USA
Meet Our Team
It started with a phone call….
Mazzarella Media had been producing children’s educational videos for over 20 years. About four years ago, we received a phone call from a special education teacher. She called to tell us she had been using our preschool videos with several autistic students in her classroom. The results, she said, were phenomenal and she was very excited. We felt good about it, but the word “autistic” didn’t really mean a lot to us at the time.
Then more letters and phone calls…
Several months later we received a letter from a parent of a child with autism. She informed us that her son learned the alphabet and how to count by watching our videos.
We said, “Wow! That’s great.”
We continued to get phone calls and letters from parents and educators about how well our learning programs worked with children with autism.
Autism touches someone we know…..
Then, a friend of ours called and said that her child had been diagnosed with autism. We learned more about it. We wanted to help.
The idea……
We thought, “If our videos worked so well for autistic children, and we didn’t even know we were doing it, what could we do if we had experts to guide us?”
That’s when the idea of SkillBuilding Buddies was born!
Our Approach
The Skill Building Buddies approach to producing children’s educational media is based on the following principles:
Kids are kids.
All kids like to be entertained. Our programs combine humorous, animated segments and developmentally-appropriate, live-action scenarios to demonstrate clearly defined skills.
Kids like cartoon characters and music
We use animated characters that are friendly and engaging and help kids learn (thus the name “skill building buddies”). Plus we incorporate music into each program. Each demonstrated skill is reviewed and reinforced with a fun music video.
Quality counts.
Our programs are produced with the highest production values. We produce the best quality children’s educational videos in the industry.
Programs must be effective.
Our video-based interventions help children learn the skills they need to communicate and socialize with others and to perform daily activities independently. And research has shown that video-based interventions work!