{"id":73,"date":"2009-03-24T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-03-24T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T23:02:18","slug":"working-withsuperhero-saves-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Working with&#8230;superhero saves kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an autistic child, on the first day in a special needs school, gets upset and crawls out a third floor window and won&#8217;t come in, you hope for someone like this Thai <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7961208.stm\">fireman.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some points to consider:\u00a0 the boy&#8217;s mother (not the teachers) knew that his favorite superhero was\u00a0 Spiderman.\u00a0\u00a0 (When in doubt about what to do with an autistic child in some situation, ask the parents&#8211;they really do know more about that child than anyone else.) \u00a0 Mr. Somchai, the fireman, had the costume and clearly didn&#8217;t worry about the possibility that some adults might find a fireman in a Spiderman costume a little&#8230;silly.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, working with children with autism, we need to be willing to risk our dignity (one of the hardest things for adults to give up&#8211;we worked so hard to get it!)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But to make that contact&#8211;to make the social, human linkage work&#8211;it&#8217;s worth the risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an autistic child, on the first day in a special needs school, gets upset and crawls out a third floor window and won&#8217;t come in, you hope for someone like this Thai fireman. Some points to consider:\u00a0 the boy&#8217;s mother (not the teachers) knew that his favorite superhero was\u00a0 Spiderman.\u00a0\u00a0 (When in doubt about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[3,11],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interventions","category-life-on-the-spectrum","tag-autism","tag-bright-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}