{"id":16036,"date":"2010-05-15T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16036"},"modified":"2010-05-28T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:14:27","slug":"skateboarding-as-autism-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16036","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding As Autism Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/askateredlogo.121133534_std.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/askateredlogo.121133534_std.jpg','popup','width=800,height=408,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/askateredlogo.121133534_std-tm.jpg\" height=\"102\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Askateredlogo.121133534 Std\" \/><\/a>When <strong>Chrys Worley<\/strong> saw how much her autistic 7-year-old son Sasha loved skateboarding she realized that it might be good for other kids who suffer from the disability. So she started the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">A.Skate Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20100515\/NEWS\/100519671\/1007?p=1&amp;tc=pg\" target=\"_blank\">Tuscaloosa News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s often really difficult for kids with autism to be part of organized sports,\u201d said Chrys Worley, a West Blocton mom whose 7-year-old son has autism. . . \u201cSkateboarding is something they can do as a group but also individually,\u201d she said. \u201cThey don\u2019t have to be overwhelmed, and it\u2019s constant motion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always used skateboarding as therapy, but it&#8217;s nice to know someone is using it to help the kids who need it the most.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">A.Skate Foundation<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20100515\/NEWS\/100519671\/1007?p=1&amp;tc=pg\">Tuscaloosa News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chrys Worley saw how much her autistic 7-year-old son Sasha loved skateboarding she realized that it might be good for other kids who suffer from the disability. So she started the A.Skate Foundation, according to a story in the Tuscaloosa News. \u201cIt\u2019s often really difficult for kids with autism to be part of organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16047,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16036\/revisions\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}