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How Disney helped my autistic son to speak
Owen Suskind has autism. He stopped talking at age three, but the only thing which engaged him was Disney films. His father Ron described how one day when he was eight years old he took a puppet of Iago and used it to have the first conversation with his son for five years.
Ron and Owen Suskind's story is told in the documentary Life Animated.
This clip is from Afternoon Edition on Monday 15 December.
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