{"id":780,"date":"2015-05-05T23:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2015-05-05T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:41:49","slug":"seeds-of-hope-for-students-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of hope for students with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/105-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/105-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/105-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/105-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called going over the cliff. When students with autism leave the public school system \u2014 and the network of support and therapy it provides \u2014 they often graduate to the couch. They struggle to find meaningful employment and to live independently, even though the majority have average to above-average intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Some special education teachers and parents in Loudoun County have been trying to change that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-nonprofit-group-teaches-farming-to-students-with-autism\/2015\/05\/01\/d77b7046-f010-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">They created Legacy Farms, a nonprofit organization that introduces young adults with autism to farming.<\/a> The goal is to help ease the transition from public school to the community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-nonprofit-group-teaches-farming-to-students-with-autism\/2015\/05\/01\/d77b7046-f010-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, May 3, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s called going over the cliff. When students with autism leave the public school system \u2014 and the network of support and therapy it provides \u2014 they often graduate to the couch. They struggle to find meaningful employment and to live independently, even though the majority have average to above-average intelligence. Some special education teachers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeds of hope for students with autism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63,56,107,3,6],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-agriculture","tag-autism","tag-education","tag-loudoun-county","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}