DVD Helps Kids With Autism Read Faces, Emotions

British researchers have found a way to use the fascination many autistic children have with trucks and trains to teach them about human emotions.

With funding from the British government, researcher Simon Baron-Cohen and his team developed a series of educational video vignettes for a DVD called The Transporters. The DVD uses colorful animated vehicles, each with the face of a highly expressive actor on it, to teach autistic children how to better read faces and emotions.

Read the article at DVD Helps Kids With Autism Read Faces, Emotions (NPR).

~ by Phoenix on February 1, 2009.