安徽省铜陵市铜都双语学校2016届高考英语一轮复习学案：49_高考复习指南

安徽省铜陵市铜都双语学校2016届高考英语一轮复习学案：49

　　Over the past five years，Borbolla's characters have been used to assist 2,000 children from 3 to 14 years old，and have been employed in three Mexico City hospitals and a center for disabilities in another city，Morelia.

　　Researchers have been using puppets(木偶) to help children express and process their feelings for decades.But Borbolla，who has been working with children for 30 years，has taken this kind of work a step further.

　　The children meet the characters in a room，without adults present；doctors monitor with cameras.They have to handle the information carefully.One principle of the work is that a doctor must not make it known that he knows something that was said to an Antenas character privately.This preserves the trust of the child's relationship with the character.

　　Borbolla originally got the idea to use a drawing of a cartoon character to communicate with children when she was working as a school psychologist in the 1980s.Years later，in private practice，she worked with a puppet maker to develop a software version.She spent six years improving the tool.

　　“The psychologists I spoke with said the tool creates an environment of trust and understanding that enables them to understand children's issues more quickly than they imagined possible，” said Borbolla.

　　To date，Antenas hasn't been carefully studied，and Borbolla is working with researchers to examine its effect.“I see how powerful it is，” she told me.“It can be used to get into the souls of children.”