{"id":1100,"date":"2017-10-02T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:29:24","slug":"journeying-and-sightseeing-for-travelers-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/10\/02\/journeying-and-sightseeing-for-travelers-with-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Journeying and Sightseeing for Travelers with Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of travel can bring up feelings of excitement, apprehension, fear, curiosity, anxiety, and happiness for individuals with autism and their family members and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>This recent article describes how &#8220;travel can be [&#8230;] onerous for people on the spectrum &#8212; but it can be especially enriching, too.&#8221;\u00a0The author nicely highlights\u00a0both challenges and rewards of traveling and also mentions many great programs and resources to help individuals with autism feel more comfortable while traveling and sightseeing, as well as companies that specifically work with travelers with ASD and other special needs and sensitivities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/travelers-with-autism\/index.html\">How the world is changing for travelers with Autism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1488646953014-85cb44e25828?dpr=1&amp;auto=compress,format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1000&amp;h=&amp;q=80&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;crop=\" alt=\"An overhead shot of a long-lens camera, a Field Notes Notebook, a pencil and a travel bag laid out on a map\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of travel can bring up feelings of excitement, apprehension, fear, curiosity, anxiety, and happiness for individuals with autism and their family members and caregivers. This recent article describes how &#8220;travel can be [&#8230;] onerous for people on the spectrum &#8212; but it can be especially enriching, too.&#8221;\u00a0The author nicely highlights\u00a0both challenges and rewards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2017\/10\/02\/journeying-and-sightseeing-for-travelers-with-autism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journeying and Sightseeing for Travelers with Autism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-resources","category-play","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}