{"id":2467,"date":"2019-01-14T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T06:00:00","slug":"autism-in-the-media-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Autism in the Media, Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;s\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">January 19 meeting, we will continue our exploration of <strong>Autism in the Media<\/strong> begun at our conference of the same title at SFSU in October. At the conference we presented a compilation of video clips of autistic characters in film and TV and heard perspectives from some of the speakers. Now, this will be <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>your chance to share opinions<\/strong> <\/span>about how accurate, effective, entertaining or problematic you find these representations. We&#8217;ll watch excerpts from recent movies and shows, and erstwhile AASCEND president <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Jack Fagan<\/strong><\/span> will moderate the discussion.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2468\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Movie_Theater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Movie_Theater.jpg 400w, https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Movie_Theater-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Autism-on-Film-TV-2013-2018.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> for an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>excellent and colorful pdf<\/strong><\/span> Jack has assembled on the topic. Check it out to get your opinions rolling, or roiling as the case may be!<\/p>\n<p>As always, <span style=\"color: #339966;\">attendees on the spectrum will offer their experience and perspectives\u00a0throughout the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><b>Who: <\/b>Adults on the autism spectrum, families, mentors and professionals all welcome. For more information, please contact: info@aascend.org<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sat Jan 19, 10am \u2013 noon<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Where: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Arc of SF<\/span> 1500 Howard St. @ 11th St. SF, CA 94103 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=1500+Howard+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.269174,-119.306607&amp;sspn=11.81214,16.633301&amp;oq=1500+Howard+st&amp;hnear=1500+Howard+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94103&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\">map<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">Parking is usually available in the garage at 255 12th Street, with a reasonable flat rate for Saturdays. There is also metered street parking for $2.25\/hr.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At AASCEND&#8216;s\u00a0January 19 meeting, we will continue our exploration of Autism in the Media begun at our conference of the same title at SFSU in October. At the conference we presented a compilation of video clips of autistic characters in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=2467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}