{"id":5243,"date":"2016-08-01T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T22:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2016-08-01T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T22:27:34","slug":"can-pokemon-go-be-used-as-an-intervention-for-patients-with-autism-spectrum-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/can-pokemon-go-be-used-as-an-intervention-for-patients-with-autism-spectrum-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Pok\u00e9mon Go be used as an intervention for patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Go is all the craze right now. Based on this article we found on <a href=\"\/\/www.autismspeaks.org\">https:\/\/www.autismspeaks.org<\/a>, Pok\u00e9mon Go might not just be a fun game, but it could also be used as an intervention for patients with ASD. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokemon-go.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5244 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokemon-go-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"pokemon-go\" width=\"332\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokemon-go-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokemon-go.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Go and other augmentative reality games can be a unique tool for patients with ASD because it can \u201cpique the interest of individuals with ASD to the point of giving them \u201cexcuses\u201d or the inspiration to explore the world around them\u201d says Dr. Peter Faustino (School Psychologist and member of the Autism Speaks Family Services Committee).<\/p>\n<p>With the success of Pok\u00e9mon Go, we can be certain to see more augmentative reality games in our near future. Do you think this is a good intervention to use for patients with ASD? Have you already used this with your patients? Comment below and get the conversation started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Go is all the craze right now. Based on this article we found on https:\/\/www.autismspeaks.org, Pok\u00e9mon Go might not just be a fun game, but it could also be used as an intervention for patients with ASD. \u00a0 Pok\u00e9mon Go and other augmentative reality games can be a unique tool for patients with ASD [&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-5243","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\/5243"}],"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=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}