{"id":40606,"date":"2016-08-22T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T20:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40606"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:48:44","slug":"brocks-autism-spectrum-disorder-camp-celebrates-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/08\/brocks-autism-spectrum-disorder-camp-celebrates-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock\u2019s Autism Spectrum Disorder Camp celebrates 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two decades, a summer camp at Brock University has been offering developmentally appropriate movement education to children and youth in the Niagara Region with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).<\/p>\n<p>The camp\u2019s education-based curriculum is specifically focused on the needs of the participants and is a community service learning opportunity that attracts 30-50 Brock University undergraduate students and an almost equal number of campers each year.\u00a0The Summer Movement Camp operates two, week-long programs and has served children and youth from ages three and up. By the end of summer, the camps will have hosted more than 2,000 participants.<\/p>\n<p>The Summer Movement Camp will mark its 20-year anniversary with a group photo on Friday<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Representatives from Brock and Niagara Recycling, which has supported the camp for nearly all of its 20-year history, will join ASD Summer Movement Camp participants, student leaders and camp volunteers for a cheque presentation and photo.\u00a0Niagara Recycling continues to demonstrate a long-term commitment to supporting individuals with disabilities in the Niagara Region and has been a dedicated funder to the ASD camp since 1997.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40607\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ASDCamp.jpg\" alt=\"ASDCamp\" width=\"1598\" height=\"1610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two decades, a summer camp at Brock University has been offering developmentally appropriate movement education to children and youth in the Niagara Region with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":40626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,3319,1],"tags":[2419,2623,4402,4403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40609,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606\/revisions\/40609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}