{"id":414,"date":"2008-10-19T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-10-19T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T14:44:38","slug":"autism-and-enthusiasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/19\/autism-and-enthusiasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism and enthusiasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/19\/magazine\/19Autism-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=slogin\">Reaching an Autistic Teenager<\/a>&#8221; describing an approach for teaching autistic kids, who generally are extremely self-absorbed and difficult to reach.  The approach, where teachers and students alike work out how the day will go, with students learning to learn and to interact, sounds fantastic:  I would have loved to have been part of that growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a reason for my enthusiasm comes from the following line in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Children with autism &#8212; especially Asperger&#8217;s &#8212; are famous for all-consuming interests in Match-box cars, bus maps, train schedules, oscillating fans, Civil War battles, baseball statistics, black holes, dinosaurs, chess, or Star Wars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; for me would be &#8220;yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes&#8221;.  And perhaps a bonus point for combining two and being fascinated with baseball schedules. You may draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an article on &#8220;Reaching an Autistic Teenager&#8221; describing an approach for teaching autistic kids, who generally are extremely self-absorbed and difficult to reach. The approach, where teachers and students alike work out how the day will go, with students learning to learn and to interact, sounds fantastic: I would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/19\/autism-and-enthusiasms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autism and enthusiasms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}