Disney’s ‘Fancy Nancy’ To Spotlight Autistic Character For World Autism Awareness Day
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deadline.comBy Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/Reporter The Disney Junior series Fancy Nancy is taking strides in representation when it comes to children’s programming with an upcoming episode titled “Nancy’s New Friend” which will feature a character who is autistic.
The episode will debut on April 2 which is timed to World Autism Awareness Day. The idea for the episode came from a video of an 11-year-old autistic boy named George Yionoulis discovered by series writer Matt Hoverman.
Yionoulis and his mother created the video for his fourth-grade class to explain to them how it is to be autistic. In this episode, Nancy tries to make a new friend in Lionel’s cousin, Sean, who is voiced by Yionoulis. “Nancy gets confused when Sean doesn’t respond to
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