Special DVD is on track to help autistic children deal with people's emotions

An animation DVD featuring vehicles with human faces has helped a group of autistic children make significant improvements in their ability to identify emotions such as anger, surprise or sadness. A clinical trial at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University involving 40 children aged between four and seven found that it took only four weeks for those with high-functioning autism who watched the cartoons for 15 minutes a day to catch up with typically developing children of the same age in their emotional recognition skills.