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First Place-Phoenix featured in award-winning documentary

They will hold a breakfast watch party on December 5
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Posted at 12:03 PM, Nov 29, 2022
and last updated 2022-11-29 17:46:10-05

PHOENIX — A documentary is set to air in December that was filmed a residential property for adults with autism, named In A Different Key.

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book of the same name by journalists Caren Zucker and John Donvan – the film’s Executive Producers.

The film follows the mother of an autistic son as she finds and then befriends the first child ever diagnosed with autism – Donald Triplett, who still lives in the small Mississippi town where he was born nearly 90 years ago.

The residents and staff at First Place-Phoenix will hold a breakfast watch party on December 5 to see the interview with Zucker and Donvan, who previously traveled to Phoenix to film the documentary.

In A Different Key, a true story of love, difference and the fight to belong, premieres on PBS on December 13 at 7 p.m.