“Meeting a muppet like me was something I never imagined would happen…”, Brent Anderson Dear Sesame Street, I found myself watching your show again after a 20-year break. In fact, I programmed it into my DVR so I wouldn’t miss it. I was excited to meet Julia, the new muppet who mad…

This week Sesame Street introduced their first autistic character – a puppet named Julia. Julia is the first new Muppet since Abby Cadabby appeared in 2006. The puppeteer who plays Julia is a mom of a child on the autism spectrum. To find out more about Julia click here. Source: The Art of Au…

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,” Stephen Mark Shore Last night Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes included a segment about Sesame Street‘s new autistic character Julia, who will be part of the regular television cast beginning in Apri…