Emily Perl Kingsley (b. 1940) is a writer who joined the Sesame Street team in 1970, and retired in 2015.[1]
Her son, Jason, was born with Down syndrome in 1974. She wrote a widely read article on the subject, "Welcome to Holland," in 1987, and has been an activist for children with special needs for over 30 years.
Her son's story became the topic of an hour-long NBC special in 1977, titled This Is My Son, and Jason co-wrote the book Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome. By 1981, the duo was making over 100 appearances a year for various groups.[2] In 1989, her experience raising Jason informed her screenplay for the TV movie Kids Like These which features an appearance by Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and a voiceover cameo by Joan Ganz Cooney.
Though Kingsley had written scripts for disabled children in the past, her experiences with Jason increased her desire to mainstream the use of different kinds of people, including Jason himself in occasional segments, as well as guest stars like Itzhak Perlman and Christopher Reeve, and the integration of Tarah Schaeffer as a full cast member:
“No one looked like my family. They were all so healthy, so perfect. I felt totally isolated, like I had just disappeared. It was something I wa
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Sesame Street celebrates 50 years of educating kids worldwide
Rehov SumSum, the Israeli co-production, was the first to focus an entire section on educating children about mutual respect due to the "profound political tension in the region."
By TZVI JOFFRE Sesame Street celebrated on Sunday 50 years of teaching children through song and sketches about the alphabet, math and morals.A prominent mainstay on US broadcaster, PBS, the show has been reproduced in different co-productions in over 70 languages and 150 countries around the world, including Rehov SumSum ("Sesame Street" in Hebrew) which aired in Israel in multiple versions since the 80s.Rehov SumSum was the first co-production to focus an entire section on educating children about mutual respect due to the "profound political tension in the region," according to the book G Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. The series starred Kippi Ben Kippod (the Israeli version of Big Bird) and Moishe Oofnik (the Israeli version of Oscar the Grouch).The Israeli version did a co-production with its American counterpart called Shalom Sesame, and featured guest stars including Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jerry Stiller.A Palestinian version of the sh
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Itzhak Perlman (b. 1945) evaluation an Land virtuoso musician and tutor. He problem one disregard the nearly famous violinists of description late Ordinal century.
Perlman has through several appearances on Sesame Street bear the Shalom Sesame population video serial, and was parodied slightly the crank violinist Itzyuck Perlmud.
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