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17 Aug 2019, 9:32 pm

I adore Julia from Sesame Street. I saw an ad yesterday (collaborated on with Autism Speaks, which makes me mad, but is beside the point of this thread) in which Julia used her talker, which I thought was so cool because I’ve never seen an autistic character who used AAC on TV before. It makes me super happy, because I use AAC a lot, sometimes I write on my boogie board, and sometimes I use my text to speech app on my iPad, just like Julia.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHBYTJITJNA


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18 Aug 2019, 10:10 pm

They should portray this sort of thing more on TV.



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19 Aug 2019, 1:24 am

I too loved Julia from sesame st, she is the only female autistic character I can remember seeing on TV



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19 Aug 2019, 1:50 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
They should portray this sort of thing more on TV.


They really should, it would go a long way towards reducing the stigma associated with nonverbal methods of communication.


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20 Aug 2019, 11:44 am

That is Awesome! Except for the Autism Speaks part.


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21 Aug 2019, 12:27 am

Autism $peaks = FAIL. :x