{"id":610,"date":"2013-02-26T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=610"},"modified":"2013-02-26T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:52:10","slug":"virtual-andy-teaches-autistic-children-social-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Andy teaches autistic children social skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_611\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Andy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-611\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611\" title=\"Andy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Andy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Andy-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Andy.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virtual Andy teaches social skills<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The use of technology in the classroom is nothing new, but a UK primary school is breaking new ground by using technology to help pupils with autism communicate with their surroundings. It\u2019s all part of a study being prepared for publishing this spring, looking at how interactive virtual characters might help autistic children, some with poorly developed social skills, adapt to the real world. Here&#8217;s my report for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1234297-virtual-andy-teaches-autistic-children-social-skills\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1234297-virtual-andy-teaches-autistic-children-social-skills\">listen to \u2018Virtual Andy teaches autistic children social skills\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of technology in the classroom is nothing new, but a UK primary school is breaking new ground by using technology to help pupils with autism communicate with their surroundings. It\u2019s all part of a study being prepared for publishing this spring, looking at how interactive virtual characters might help autistic children, some with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}