Emily Perl Kingsley
Awards & Honors
23 Emmy Awards, EMMY AWARD - Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Writing - SESAME STREET
About 40 Emmy Award nominations - EMMY AWARD - Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Writing - SESAME STREET
1981 Award from NATIONAL THEATRE OF THE DEAF
1983 "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" for Volunteer Activities - New York DAILY NEWS
1984 Media Award - Ohio Public Images, Department of Developmental Disabilities
1985 Public Awareness Award - Sarah A. Litch Developmental Center, Ft. Wayne, IN
1985 Exceptional Meritorious Service Award - National Down Syndrome Congress
1987 Honoree - 1987 Westchester Association for Retarded Citizens - Annual Friends of the Retarded Ball
1988 Christopher Award for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 Distinguished Service Award - Union County NJ ARC
1988 Humanitarian Award - Girl Scouts of America, Westchester/ Putnam
1988 Kathleen Arneson Award - People-to-People Committee for the Handicapped, Washington DC
1988 First Prize - Drama Category - Rehabilitation International Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan - for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 ARC of EXCELLENCE Award - Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States - for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 National Easter Seals Communications Award - for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 Media Award from National Down Syndrome Congress for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 Annual Mass Media Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for KIDS LIKE THESE
1988 Community Service Award - Outstanding Service Through Media - from Association for Retarded Citizens-Tidewater of Norfolk, VA - for KIDS LIKE THESE
1989 Humanitarian Award from Association for Children with Down Syndrome, Bellmore NY
1989 Best TV Movie-of-the-Week/Mini-Series - [KIDS LIKE THESE] - 10TH ANNUAL MEDIA ACCESS AWARDS, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Outstanding Achievement Award - State of New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council
1990 First “Kingsley Award” for Service to Mankind - Up with Downs, Down Syndrome Parent Group, Tampa, FL
1990 Special Achievement Award for Families - from Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, Hyannis Port, MA
1993 Award from 5th International Conference - National Down Syndrome Society
1994 Meritorious Service Award - from National Parent Network on Disability
1994 Ambassador of Good Will Award - from Association for Children with Down Syndrome
1994 EDI Award from National Easter Seal Society for Sesame Street script “Tarah’s Big Race” dealing with child who uses a wheelchair
1995 Unity in Media Award - for Sesame Street script “Tarah’s Big Race”
1998 NDSS - FUTURE IS OURS Advocacy Award
1999 YWCA - Outstanding Achievement/Arts - Salute to Women and Racial Justice
2006 PERSPECTIVES Media Award for Lifetime Achievement, Los Angeles, CA
2007 SPROUT FILM FESTIVAL - Maverick Media Award
2008 Secretary’s Highest Recognition Award - USA Department of Health & Human Services, Washington DC
2008 New York Festivals World Medal - International Film & Video Home Video: Children’s Education
2008 KIDS X-PRESS - Touch The Sky Award
2011 PASSAGES - Impact Award
2015 NDSS - LEADERSHIP AWARD recognition in embracing all abilities
2020 AAIDD National Honoree, 2020 National Honors, the National Historic Recognition Project, for significant national contributions in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities in the US between 2000 and 2020
AWARDS WON BY ‘COUNT US IN’ (book written by Jason Kingsley & Mitchell Levitz)
EDI AWARD from National Easter Seal Society
SPECIAL MERIT AWARD from the Media Access Office of the California
Governor’s Committee on Employment of Disabled Persons.
MEDIA AWARD from the National Down Syndrome Congress.
HONORABLE MENTION from the National Rehabilitation Week
MEDIA AWARD from TASH (The Association for People with Severe Handicaps)
WASHINGTON IRVING LIST OF BEST BOOKS OF 1993-4 by the Westchester Library Association
BEST BOOKS OF 1994 FOR TEENAGERS by the New York Public Library