{"id":9913,"date":"2015-01-28T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:13:23","slug":"lego-based-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/lego-based-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO-based therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sailboat-Storm-2-600x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9914 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sailboat-Storm-2-600x450-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sailboat Storm 2-600x450\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>LEGO-based Therapy is a social development intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The goals of LEGO Therapy for such children are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improve their motivation to initiate social contact with peers<\/li>\n<li>improve their ability to sustain interaction with peers for a period of time<\/li>\n<li>overcome their autistic symptoms of aloofness and rigidity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispabrickmagazine.com\/en\/content\/hbm021-lego%C2%AE-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article by Ashley Green and Jenny Smart<\/a>, published in HispaBrick Issue 21.<\/p>\n<p>See also the <a title=\"The Social Skills Network\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/the-social-skills-network\/\">Social Skills Network<\/a> article on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGO-based Therapy is a social development intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The goals of LEGO Therapy for such children are to: improve their motivation to initiate social contact with peers improve their ability to sustain interaction with peers for a period of time overcome their autistic symptoms of aloofness and rigidity. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,128],"tags":[431,432,430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14397,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/14397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}