{"id":3856,"date":"2012-12-26T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2012-12-26T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:55:02","slug":"autism-friendly-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/autism-friendly-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism Friendly Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Christmas has come and gone, but there was one story this holiday season that gave us that holiday feel good feeling! The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego created a special rendition of \u00a0\u201cDr. Seuss\u2019 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,\u201d geared toward people with autism and their families.<\/p>\n

The performance, one of the first of its kind on the west coast, featured modified sound, lighting and other effects in deference to sensory sensitivities.\u00a0But for many of the families who attended (over 470 people to be exact), the most welcome aspect was just being in a community of people who understood their challenges and wouldn\u2019t bat an eye at behavior that might be deemed disruptive at a typical performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love theater, and we haven\u2019t ever been able to let him be a part of that with us,\u201d said Cyndi Sapper of her 20-year-old son, Stevenson, after the show. \u201cAnd this was just amazing. It was so relaxing, really.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sapper\u2019s husband, Steve, appreciated that Stevenson was \u201cable to be himself, and enjoy himself, and laugh if he wanted to, and bounce if he wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a family, there are so many things we can\u2019t do,\u201d said his mom, Patricia Morris Buckley. \u201cWe can\u2019t do parades, we can\u2019t do big malls. So to be able to share a holiday tradition like this is, for our whole family, such an amazing experience. It makes me cry to think of all the families that don\u2019t get to do anything with their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the entire article on the\u00a0wonderful\u00a0cast and directors that put the show together here<\/a>. We hope to see more theater supporting performances like this – what a wonderful way to allow families to feel support and comfort during the holidays!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Christmas has come and gone, but there was one story this holiday season that gave us that holiday feel good feeling! The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego created a special rendition of \u00a0\u201cDr. Seuss\u2019 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,\u201d geared toward people with autism and their families. The performance, one of the first…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Autism Friendly Theater","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[103,367,585],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}