Emily Perl Kingsley

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Emily Perl Kingsley (her real name is Emmely Pearl) is an American writer who has been writing for the Sesame Street team since 1970 .

Their son Jason Kingsley was born with trisomy 21 in 1974 . At the time of his birth it was believed that such children could never learn to walk or speak. Kingsley's work as a writer and activist for children with disabilities helped change that attitude. Her experience with Jason inspired her to integrate people with disabilities into Sesame Street, including Tarah Schaeffer, an actress in a wheelchair, and her son Jason. His life was the subject of a one hour special, This Is My Son on NBC . He co-wrote (co-authored with Mitchell Levitz) the book Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome.

In 1987 Kingsley wrote Welcome to Holland , a work translated into many languages, in which she compared the experience of raising a child with disabilities to a trip to the Netherlands. In the same year she won numerous awards with the TV film Kids Like These (first broadcast on CBS ). This film is about a couple whose child has trisomy 21.

Kingsley has written over 20 children's books and has been involved in two Sesame Street home videos ( Elmo Learns To Share and Elmo Says Boo! ). She has also worked for other companies, most recently on two interactive CD-ROMs from Disney .

Through her work on Sesame Street, she has won 17 Emmys and has been nominated 14 times. She also received three EDI awards and the Grand EDI award (EDI stands for Equality, Dignity and Independence ) from Easter Seals, as well as an award from the National Theater of the Deaf . In October 2008, she received a special award from the United States Department of Health in recognition of her pioneering 38 years of work on Sesame Street, in which she involved people with disabilities.

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SURNAME Kingsley, Emily Perl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970