CBeebies Are Getting Praise For A Show About Autism Voiced By Autistic Children
CBeebies Are Getting Praise For A Show About Autism Voiced By Autistic Children
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According to the article, all the voice actors are autistic and the show asked autistic writers to write episodes. It looks like it’s a mix of live action and animation and it doesn’t say if the live action actor is also autistic. Being in the US, I can’t access the show (it’s on CBeebies in the UK), but it sounds like it’s good representation.
I’m in the UK and watching it on BBC iPlayer, and it is a DELIGHT. Live-action Pablo switches into an animated world when he gets stressed and consults with his animated friends who help him with various questions and problems he’s having. It’s wonderful. The animated animals are all autistic in different ways and I feel so so happy and fulfilled and represented watching it.
CBeebies is WONDERFUL for things like this. In the past couple of years they’ve also had a show with a visually impaired child, played by a child with the same disability; a show dedicated to helping kids with special needs communicate; and a show which features poetry translated into sign language!
Even CBeebies Land at Alton Towers theme park has all its rides suitable for disabled kids and most of them wheelchair-friendly, plus a sensory garden with signs in Makaton and Makaton-signing staff in the hotels! They’re really good.