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My daughter wants to campaign for autism described cinema/tv - thoughts?

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Hi there,

My 14 year old autistic daughter has real difficulty following the plot of some tv and films. Not always, but sometimes. To give you a recent example, she easily followed Miss Perigrines school for peculiar children, but didn't have a clue what was going on when trying to watch Star Trek First Contact. I jokingly said there ought to be autism described tv like they do audio described tv for blind people, filling in social blanks and explaining non-literal language use/plot ideas.  She completely seized on the idea and thought it completely unfair this service wasn't already available! 

We've turned on audio description to see if that helps a bit, but it got me wondering if anyone else out there has the same problem as my daughter and wishes there was autism-targeted additional description?

Has anyone else found audio description helpful? We've only just turned it on so not yet gauged how useful it's likely to be.

thanks for any views 

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  • Subtitles and volume normalisation really help, it does mean most of what I watch is recorded media though where that stuff can be easily controlled.

    That way you learn to read what is about to be said, and then can focus on intended meaning separately from the words, gives you a bit more of a chance with things. I find I remember functions better than I remember names and faces, so I won't remember names, but will usually be able to remember that he is the policeman in charge, the woman is the doctor, that character is the child who steals things. Of course, that doesn't help when names are used, but it can help follow a plot.

    What Clovis said makes a lot of sense, there are multiple challenges present for autistic people watching movies, some things will bother people more than others. I personally enjoy Star Trek and find it easy to follow, it may be because I know a lot of naval terminology and rankings (although they are all American), or it might just be because I am interested in it.

    Forest

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  • Subtitles and volume normalisation really help, it does mean most of what I watch is recorded media though where that stuff can be easily controlled.

    That way you learn to read what is about to be said, and then can focus on intended meaning separately from the words, gives you a bit more of a chance with things. I find I remember functions better than I remember names and faces, so I won't remember names, but will usually be able to remember that he is the policeman in charge, the woman is the doctor, that character is the child who steals things. Of course, that doesn't help when names are used, but it can help follow a plot.

    What Clovis said makes a lot of sense, there are multiple challenges present for autistic people watching movies, some things will bother people more than others. I personally enjoy Star Trek and find it easy to follow, it may be because I know a lot of naval terminology and rankings (although they are all American), or it might just be because I am interested in it.

    Forest

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