{"id":4250,"date":"2013-04-12T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2013-04-12T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:00:33","slug":"autism-and-occupational-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/autism-and-occupational-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism and Occupational Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With April being both National OT Month and Autism Awareness month, the link between OTs and Autism becomes more visible.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video with one OT sharing his opinion on why he enjoys working with Autistic children.<\/p>\n<p>%EMBED1%<\/p>\n<p>Advance Magazine recently asked readers what made them decide to become an OT.\u00a0 Here are a few of their responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;I wanted to give someone what an OT gave me&#8230;hope.\u00a0 (I have a son with PDD-NOS) Besides, I love to take off my shoes and play.&#8221; -Carol Marcantonio, OT<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I liked the idea of &#8220;therapeutic use of self&#8221;. Now I have a creative outlet to share the joy.&#8221; -Barbara Magnatta<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occupational-therapy.advanceweb.com\/Multimedia\/Photo-Gallery\/Career-Decision-Day.aspx\">Click here<\/a> to view the full story from Advance Magazine.\u00a0 What is your reason for choosing to become an OT? Do you have a favorite group that you enjoy working with?<\/p>\n<p>Share with us here or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Summit-Professional-Education\/142005475857087\">Facebook<\/a> your reasons for becoming an OT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With April being both National OT Month and Autism Awareness month, the link between OTs and Autism becomes more visible. Here&#8217;s a video with one OT sharing his opinion on why he enjoys working with Autistic children. %EMBED1% Advance Magazine recently asked readers what made them decide to become an OT.\u00a0 Here are a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}