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Diversity Sauce highlights articles from the KIDMAP weekly newsletter and features interviews with producers and researchers focused on the importance of diverse, inclusive, and equitable content in all children's media.
20: Disabilities and representation in children's media
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9 years ago
20: Disabilities and representation in children's media
Kabir and Amy discuss a recent TV study that showed the overwhelming number of characters with disabilities are played by able-bodied characters (2:00). They also cover the show Stranger Things and how the actor's disability was dealt with in the show. From there, they move to the growing movement of #ToysLikeMe (12:00) that has created more and more dolls with various representations of disabilities. Xbox has also launched new avatars with wheelchairs. Finally, University of Michigan researchers have created a new sensory technology aimed at children with autism. (21:40)
Here is the link Amy talked about with the young girl who receives an American Girl Doll with a prosthetic leg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhAcBwwpo0
Diversity Sauce
Diversity Sauce highlights articles from the KIDMAP weekly newsletter and features interviews with producers and researchers focused on the importance of diverse, inclusive, and equitable content in all children's media.
