{"id":29269,"date":"2026-04-16T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:24:31","slug":"april-autism-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/april-autism-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"April Autism Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>April Autism Awareness Month Theme \u201cAutism and Humanity Every Life Has Value,<\/b>\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>To help raise awareness and understanding of autism during this month, our deanery has asked that prayers be offered and that posters providing insight into autism be displayed in our parishes. The posters can be seen in our church noticeboard and on our website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MOVEMENT-AND-RELAXATION-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29267\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MOVEMENT-AND-RELAXATION-1-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MOVEMENT-AND-RELAXATION-1-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MOVEMENT-AND-RELAXATION-1-136x192.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MOVEMENT-AND-RELAXATION-1.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MY-PERSONAL-SPACE-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29266\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MY-PERSONAL-SPACE-1-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MY-PERSONAL-SPACE-1-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MY-PERSONAL-SPACE-1-136x192.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTISM-AWARENESS-\u2013-MY-PERSONAL-SPACE-1.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-Im-Mary-and-I-have-autism.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29265\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-Im-Mary-and-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-Im-Mary-and-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-Im-Mary-and-I-have-autism-136x192.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-Im-Mary-and-I-have-autism.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Lucy-and-I-have-autism.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29264\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Lucy-and-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Lucy-and-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Lucy-and-I-have-autism-136x192.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Lucy-and-I-have-autism.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Pat.-I-have-autism.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29263\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Pat.-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Pat.-I-have-autism-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Pat.-I-have-autism-136x192.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hi-my-name-is-Pat.-I-have-autism.jpeg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Autism Awareness Month Theme \u201cAutism and Humanity Every Life Has Value,\u201d To help raise awareness and understanding of autism during this month, our deanery has asked that prayers be offered and that posters providing insight into autism be displayed in our parishes. The posters can be seen in our church noticeboard and on our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/april-autism-awareness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April Autism Awareness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29270,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}