{"id":600,"date":"2008-03-06T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/03\/embracing-autism\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T22:04:00","slug":"embracing-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/embracing-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childdevelopmentmedia.com\/history-theory-research\/50217a.html\">Robert Parish<\/a>, autism dad and documentary filmmaker, just published his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josseybass.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-078799586X.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Embracing Autism,<\/span><\/a> (Wiley\/Jossey-Bass) which is a collection of essays written by parents, professionals, and other folk in-the-know (autistics themselves).  The book is meant for educators, primarily; to give them a feeling for the range and flavors of ASD.  I wrote the foreword.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismasperger.net\/\">Stephen Shore<\/a>, a writer and speaker (and very good guy) with autism did an essay, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismvox.com\/\">Autism Vox&#8217;s Kristina Chew<\/a>, professor, autism thinker and Charlie&#8217;s mom; my unique and irrepressible friend <a href=\"http:\/\/kimstagliano.blogspot.com\/\">Kim Stagliano,<\/a> writer and mother of three girls on the spectrum; autism parent, law enforcement expert and entertaining speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismriskmanagement.com\/about.html\">Dennis Debbeaudt,<\/a> and many others, each very readable and out-of-the-box.  Rob did a very good job wrangling so many different personalities for his book, as well as writing some beautiful and very helpful stuff himself.  Go out and get yourself and your kid&#8217;s teacher a copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Robert Parish, autism dad and documentary filmmaker, just published his book, Embracing Autism, (Wiley\/Jossey-Bass) which is a collection of essays written by parents, professionals, and other folk in-the-know (autistics themselves). The book is meant for educators, primarily; to give them a feeling for the range and flavors of ASD. I wrote the foreword. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-9G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}