{"id":9849,"date":"2026-04-13T03:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=9849"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:19:23","slug":"autism-acceptance-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/autism-acceptance-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism Acceptance Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is <a href=\"https:\/\/autismsociety.org\/autism-acceptance-month\/\">Autism Acceptance Month<\/a>. This month, learn about Autism and celebrate and support your students, classmates and community members on the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/autism\/addm-network\/?CDC_AAref_Val=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncbddd\/autism\/addm.html\">Centers for Disease Control&#8217;s (CDC)<\/a> 2025 Community Report on Autism based on a 2022 study of 16 communities estimates that Autism Spectrum Disorder prevalence among children aged 8 years was 1 in 31 (3.2%) overall. This is not a single disorder, but a group of closely related disorders affecting how a child learns, interacts with others and communicates. Behaviors, abilities, and symptoms vary considerably creating unique challenges for intervention and treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLearn about the challenges and resources available to those with autism and how to encourage inclusion and acceptance for those affected by it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45054,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions\/45054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}