Empathy has been taught to children with autism via a specially designed cartoon…
Researchers have discovered that empathy can be taught to children by using a specially designed cartoon. The Transporters, a DVD created to help youngsters with autism and Asperger Syndrome to recognise emotions, was played to children with autism aged from four to seven years, every day for four weeks. The children’s emotional vocabulary and recognition was gauged before and after the study, and they were found to have improved in all areas…
“A little empathy on the part of designers of educational resources may help the development of empathy in children with autism.”
