{"id":1073,"date":"2021-11-20T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2021-12-27T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T02:38:54","slug":"celebrating-50-years-of-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/uncategorized\/celebrating-50-years-of-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3.png 936w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3-768x264.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are excited to tell you about our new film, \u2018Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss!\u2019 The film is looking at how Bliss symbols got started in Toronto and how they were used to help nonspeaking people to communicate here and then around the world. The movie is narrated by Shirley McNaughton who introduced this symbol based language system to children who had physical limitations. In the last 50 years many children have used Bliss symbols as a way to communicate and have moved on to use the printed word. Many of these children didn\u2019t have a way to communicate in a meaningful way prior to this. There is a lot of music from the Bliss i-Band featured throughout this movie. The Bliss i-band was co-founded by Shirley McNaughton and Audrey King. The film,&#8217;Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss!\u2019 Can now be seen on YouTube <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/2H8e3jtrLs0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Samantha Millar and Carolyn Henry&nbsp;<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>with assistance from Julie Millar and Glynis Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to tell you about our new film, \u2018Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss!\u2019 The film is looking at how Bliss symbols got started in Toronto and how they were used to help nonspeaking people to communicate here and then around the world. The movie is narrated by Shirley McNaughton who introduced this symbol &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/uncategorized\/celebrating-50-years-of-bliss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}