{"id":19663,"date":"2021-05-01T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/?p=19663"},"modified":"2021-04-23T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:02:58","slug":"meet-our-programs-fantastic-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/2021\/05\/01\/meet-our-programs-fantastic-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Programs &#8211; Fantastic Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fantastic Friends<\/strong> \u2013 A fun night out to facilitate social interactions between adults with Down syndrome, their peers and the community. Supports the development of social skills and language through peer to peer interaction in a casual and fun setting. All adults welcome from ages 18 and up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase social skills, with a focus on group participation and increasing leisure activity options<\/li>\n<li>Increase language development, with a focus on appropriateness, maintaining conversation and non-verbal social language<\/li>\n<li>Increase gross motor skills, with a focus on general health, fitness (strength and balance) and awareness of personal space<\/li>\n<li>Increase fine motor skills and self-help skills through participation in a variety of activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantastic Friends &#8211; Amigos Fant\u00e1sticos &#8211; <\/strong>Una salida de noche para facilitar la interacci\u00f3n social entre adultos con S\u00edndrome de Down, sus compa\u00f1eros y la comunidad.\u00a0 Apoyar el desarrollo de destrezas sociales y lenguaje a trav\u00e9s de interacciones de compa\u00f1ero a compa\u00f1ero en un ambiente casual y divertido. Todos los adultos son bienvenidos de edades de 18 a\u00f1os en adelante.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aumentar destrezas sociales, con \u00e9nfasis en la participaci\u00f3n en grupo y aumento en alternativas de actividad recreativa<\/li>\n<li>Aumentar el desarrollo de lenguaje con \u00e9nfasis en lenguaje apropiado, mantener una conversaci\u00f3n y lenguaje social no-verbal<\/li>\n<li>Aumentar destrezas motor gruesas, con \u00e9nfasis en salud general, aptitud f\u00edsica (fortaleza y balance) y sensibilidad de espacio personal<\/li>\n<li>Aumento en destrezas motor fino y destrezas de autoayuda a trav\u00e9s de la participaci\u00f3n en una variedad de actividades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic Friends \u2013 A fun night out to facilitate social interactions between adults with Down syndrome, their peers and the community. Supports the development of social skills and language through peer to peer interaction in a casual and fun setting. All adults welcome from ages 18 and up. Increase social skills, with a focus on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[551,10,9,547],"class_list":["post-19663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","tag-best-of-all","tag-down-syndrome","tag-fantastic-friends","tag-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}