The Spanish version of the kid’s show Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood will now have audio description and closed captions.

The Spanish version of the kid’s show Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood will now have audio description and closed captions. Thanks to the joint work of Dicapta and Fred Roger’s productions, Season 1 through Season 6 of the show will have these accessibility features available in PBS Kids and All4Access. Additionally, the sixth season of the show will be available in the DCMP with accessibility.

Inspired by Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, this preschooler show is about Daniel Tiger, a 4-year-old tiger cub, his family, and friends. Through songs and adventures, they will learn important life and school skills.

The show is especially good at teaching social skills to pre-schoolers. It was used in a study by Texas Tech University that explored the effects of TV shows that try to teach social skills to kids. In this experiment, 127 kids were divided into groups. Some watched 30 minutes a day of nature documentaries, and others watched 30 minutes of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.

Kids in the study who watched Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood had higher levels of empathy, were better at recognizing emotions, and were more confident in social situations than those who watched the nature show.

We hope that these new accessibility elements for Daniel Tiger can help it reach new audiences and educate more children.

Funding for Daniel Tiger's accessibility elements is provided by the United States' Department of Education under the project #H327C210001.

About Fred Rogers Productions

Fred Rogers Productions was founded by Fred Rogers in 1971 as the nonprofit producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for PBS. In the years that followed, it created hundreds of episodes of this much-loved program and extended Fred’s values and approach to other efforts in promoting children’s social, emotional, and behavioral health while supporting parents, caregivers, teachers, and other professionals in their work with children. Fred Rogers Productions continues to build on Fred’s legacy in innovative ways through a wide variety of media, and engages new generations of children and families with his timeless wisdom. The company’s highly-rated children’s series, including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Peg + Cat, Odd Squad, and Through the Woods, have earned 30 Emmy® Awards among other important honors. Newly launched in 2021 on PBS KIDS is Donkey Hodie, the innovative puppet series inspired by characters from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood; and the justreleased Alma’s Way, an animated series created by Sonia Manzano, known to generations of children and adults as “Maria” on Sesame Street. For more information, visit www.fredrogers.org or follow them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

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