{"id":1618,"date":"2013-02-04T21:38:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T04:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2016-07-12T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T00:36:51","slug":"what-are-students-with-autism-favorite-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"What Are Students with Autism Favorite Majors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study published by the <em>Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders<\/em> found that students with ASD are interested in enrolling in the following majors: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the director of the Autism Research Center in the University of Cambridge U.K. said: &#8220;It may be that people with autism naturally think like scientists,&#8221; &#8220;They look for patterns, and, in science you are always looking for patterns that you hope reflect a natural law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This a good reason to encourage the development of programs in high schools that focus on these areas of interest. A formal communication and cooperation between high schools and universities\/colleges should be set in place to allow a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Students with Autism Gravitate Toward STEM Majors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/students-autism-gravitate-toward-stem-majors-161800028.html\" target=\"_blank\">news.yahoo.com\/students-autism-gravitate-toward-stem-majors-161800028.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study published by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders found that students with ASD are interested in enrolling in the following majors: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Likewise, the director of the Autism Research Center in the University of Cambridge U.K. said: &#8220;It may be that people with autism naturally think like &#8230; <a title=\"What Are Students with Autism Favorite Majors?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1618\" aria-label=\"Read more about What Are Students with Autism Favorite Majors?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,10,50,102,383,92,31,65],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-independence","tag-majors","tag-parenting","tag-research","tag-social-interaction","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}