{"id":1203,"date":"2015-01-13T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2015-08-14T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:00:20","slug":"autism-in-video-games-we-help-a-new-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"AASCEND on TV, in the library and helping a new school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is off and running and we are serving up a smorgasboard of attractions at <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<\/span>&#8216;s<\/strong> January 24 meeting. We&#8217;ll start off with a dissussion of this <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>breaking news:<\/strong><\/span> AASCEND is invited to host a show on <strong>SF Commons Public Access Television<\/strong> in the new year. What should we call the show? How can we best use this opportunity to tell people about life on the spectrum? What would you like to say? Who should we interview?\u00a0 How can you be involved? Join us for the conversation about an exciting new opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"TV image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.media-alliance.org\/img\/pic\/Tv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next, AASCEND has been invited to speak its mind on how to improve public library access to people on the autism spectrum. Do you use the public library regularly or would you like to? What do you like about the library experience and how could it be improved? Come share your experience and ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"bookworm chair\" src=\"http:\/\/images.gizmag.com\/hero\/bookworm-chair-bibliophiles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Meristem<\/strong><\/span>, a new school for transition-age autistic people will be opening this year in Sacramento and AASCEND has been invited to hear their plans and to offer suggestions about the program. This is a first for AASCEND \u2014 let&#8217;s see how our experience can help!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meristem-BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1204\" style=\"border: solid gray 1px;\" title=\"Meristem B:W\" src=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meristem-BW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meristem-BW.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Meristem-BW-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>When:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sat Jan 24,\u00a010am \u2013 Noon<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>Where:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Arc of SF<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>1500 Howard St. @ 11th St. \u00a0 \u00a0SF, CA 94103\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=1500+Howard+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.269174,-119.306607&amp;sspn=11.81214,16.633301&amp;oq=1500+Howard+st&amp;hnear=1500+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94103&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\">map<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Parking is available<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in the garage at 255 12th Street, with a reasonable flat rate for Saturdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is off and running and we are serving up a smorgasboard of attractions at AASCEND&#8216;s January 24 meeting. We&#8217;ll start off with a dissussion of this breaking news: AASCEND is invited to host a show on SF &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=1203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}