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

Pageant

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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  • Pageant said:

    Thanks for all the interesting viewpoints. My daughter tried audio description and liked it a lot. I suspect she may also like subtitles too - maximum input to reduce the risk of having missed something. She's good at visual stuff such as recognising faces. It's the social context and social language she really struggles with. I'm now on a mission to find audio described screenings of the new Star Wars film in the hope I can drag her along...

    Ask at your local cinema; they should have a screening like that.

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  • Pageant said:

    Thanks for all the interesting viewpoints. My daughter tried audio description and liked it a lot. I suspect she may also like subtitles too - maximum input to reduce the risk of having missed something. She's good at visual stuff such as recognising faces. It's the social context and social language she really struggles with. I'm now on a mission to find audio described screenings of the new Star Wars film in the hope I can drag her along...

    Ask at your local cinema; they should have a screening like that.

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