New Elmo DVD takes on deployments, injuries

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New Elmo DVD takes on deployments, injuries
By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Oct 10, 2007 6:34:56 EDT

Elmo’s dad has deployed and come home. Now he’s deploying again.

His fluffy blue friend Rosita is having trouble adjusting to her own father’s injury.

Elmo will use his own experience — and the research conducted by Sesame Workshop — to help military children and their parents cope with the stresses of multiple deployments, in a new Sesame Street DVD available for military families in January. The Muppets also address the difficulties children face when a parent returns changed as a result of traumatic brain injury and other war wounds, said Jeanette Betancourt, vice president of outreach and educational practices for Sesame Workshop, at a family forum Oct. 9 at the annual convention of the Association of the United States Army.

Sesame Workshop will produce more than 400,000 of the new DVD. It builds on the “Talk, Listen, Connect” DVD starring Elmo and his deploying dad, which debuted in August 2006. Like its predecessor, the new DVD will also be offered in Spanish, and will be free. When it is launched in January, it also will be available for download at the Sesame Workshop site.

After Rosita expresses her frustration about her dad’s injuries, Elmo encourages her to talk to her parents.

Rosita tells her father, “I wish your legs were OK, Papi, and I wish you didn’t have to go to the doctor so much. And I just wish things could go back to the way they were.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/military_elmo_dvd_071009w/



uhc comment: The families of injured vets are often forgotten. This is the second article I've seen in the Times about kids, which is good.