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Introducing more complicated disabilities can then be introduced as the child grows older...
But let's be honest here, how many programmes primarily aimed at entertaining children are *ever* going to include characters having seizures or displaying cognitive abnormalities?
I don't mean to the point of saturation, but when the need arises like on certain schools programming, Blue Peter or children's documentaries.... I remember that two disabled people were part of a series on Going Live called 'All About Me'; one had autism, Stephen Wiltshire, and a girl with Down's Syndrome. Two other people with Down's Syndrome danced to 'Music of the Night' from Phantom of the Opera on the show too, and Michael Crawford made a special effort to come to the studio to see them and was very moved by them... I don't think we'd get that on childrens' television now, a pity....
Katherine
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Glorfindel posted:
Introducing more complicated disabilities can then be introduced as the child grows older...
But let's be honest here, how many programmes primarily aimed at entertaining children are *ever* going to include characters having seizures or displaying cognitive abnormalities?
I don't mean to the point of saturation, but when the need arises like on certain schools programming, Blue Peter or children's documentaries.... I remember that two disabled people were part of a series on Going Live called 'All About Me'; one had autism, Stephen Wiltshire, and a girl with Down's Syndrome. Two other people with Down's Syndrome danced to 'Music of the Night' from Phantom of the Opera on the show too, and Michael Crawford made a special effort to come to the studio to see them and was very moved by them... I don't think we'd get that on childrens' television now, a pity....