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Sesame Street Introducing Its 1st Autistic Character
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 2:43pm
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Generations of young people have had their education supplemented by watching "Sesame Street" and have enjoyed learning from Big Bird, Elmo and Cookie Monster — among many others.
Now, the Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind the program, is working on a new initiative "Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children."
As part of that, Sesame Street is introducing Julia, its first autistic character. We spoke with Stacey Gordon, the Phoenix-based puppeteer behind Julia.