{"id":209058,"date":"2026-03-28T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:17:08","slug":"children-with-autism-work-on-swimming-skills-and-learn-surfing-during-joint-event-in-miami-beach-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209058\/","title":{"rendered":"Children with autism work on swimming skills and learn surfing during joint event in Miami Beach &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A group of children with autism got the chance to enjoy an unforgettable experience. <\/p>\n<p>The City of Miami Beach Parks and Recreational Department and the Center of Autism and Related Disabilities teamed up to provide children with the opportunity to work on their swimming skills and learn basic oceanography, meteorology and surfing on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Some families came from all over to take part in the activity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Latin America, there\u2019s very few opportunities for our kids to be involved in anything like this so the fact that he lives here now, it was just important for us to be here supporting him and this event,\u201d said family member Raul Martinez. <\/p>\n<p>The annual event has been held since 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A group of children with autism got the chance to enjoy an unforgettable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-209058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}