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Elin, a wheelchair user, brings diversity to Sesame Street

Diversity on Sesame Street

Sesame Street gets reinforcements: Elin is in a wheelchair. The doll can be seen on German Sesame Street from autumn 2023.

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Scissors, Rene · Mar 19, 2023 at 12:25 p.m

From autumn there will be a new resident in Germany’s Sesame Street: Elin. She is disabled and enthusiastic about technology, says René Schaar. The person who came up with the idea for the character would have liked to see himself represented earlier as a disabled child.

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