Title
The Transporters
Subtitle
An online video resource to teach autistic children about emotions. Available in five languages.
Author
Simon Baron-Cohen
Summary
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"The Transporters is a fun video series to help autistic children understand the causes of emotions, and the facial expressions that go with them.
How does it work?
Many autistic children love predictability. The Transporters was designed to harness this love of predictability by making all the characters in the episodes vehicles that move in a predictable way, such as trains, trams and cable cars that move along tracks.
What’s novel is that each vehicle has a real human face ‘grafted’ onto it which moves in a life-like way. Whilst each vehicle is an animation, the faces are from actors showing real human emotions.
Even without realising it, when an autistic child is watching the train or the cable car going along tracks, they are getting an opportunity to look at faces, and to learn how different situations give rise to different emotions."
Language
English
German
Hebrew
Serbian
Dutch
Subjects
Mental Health
Social Engagement
Publisher
Changing Media Development
DateModified
2/5/2024 2:10 PM EST