Disney Branded Television’s Firebuds animated series from Emmy Award-winning creator and executive producer Craig Gerber (Disney’s Elena of Avalor and Sofia the First), follows a team of young first responders and their talking vehicle sidekicks.
Two new episodes titled Cleft Hood and All That Jazzy, will spotlight disability representation addressing volunteerism, community service, teamwork, wheelchair use, and cleft palate disorder.
Each episode includes characters voiced by Lou Diamond Phillips, Melissa Rauch, Yvette Nicole Brown, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, Tatiana Lee, and Ali Stroker.
The first of these two episodes, Cleft Hood, introduces a new vehicle character named Castor, who was born with a cleft hood, was written by Jeremy Shipp, part of the Emmy-winning writing team behind Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, and inspired by his own son, Henry, who was born with a cleft lip and palate.
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