Moving story of a local autistic child who communicated through Disney movies

Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney

By RON SUSKIND

A version of this article appears in print on March 9, 2014, on page MM20 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Animating Owen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/reaching-my-autistic-son-through-disney.html

Animating Owen

By Roger Ross Williams March 7th, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/video/magazine/100000002755397/animating-owen.html

 

Roger Ross Williams, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker, spent time with Ron Suskind and his son, Owen, who has autism, to show how they learned to communicate using dialogue from Disney movies.