{"id":10160,"date":"2016-04-07T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-gardening-helped-my-autistic-son-to-blossom\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:01:19","slug":"how-gardening-helped-my-autistic-son-to-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-gardening-helped-my-autistic-son-to-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"How gardening helped my autistic son to blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGardening has the potential to empower those with autism, building their confidence to cope with the outside worldI was going to write about compost this month and the different techniques I\u2019ve been using to produce more gardening \u2018gold\u2019 for my plot. Then I found out it\u2019s World Autism Awareness Week and I couldn\u2019t resist writing about my fabulous autistic son and the many therapeutic benefits of gardening instead. In the few years since Arthur\u2019s diagnosis (he\u2019s nearly seven) my family and I have been through a lot with our youngest son. We have found that like most (if not all) non-neurotypical children, he is happiest outside. Arthur is a charmingly happy little boy most of the time anyway, but he\u2019s utterly in his element when either walking or doing things in the open air. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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