Local cinema screens movies for autistic children

Fri, 30 Oct 2015

Standalone cinema screenings especially for autistic children have been welcomed.

Coordinated by local parents and the Palace Cinema, the sensory friendly screenings offer a calm controlled environment for the young people to enjoy the movie.

Louise Jacob-Armstrong and her seven year old autistic son Samuel have traditionally found cinema going an anxious experience.

She says this new approach has so far worked brilliantly: