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Autistic strengths should be utilised to best effect

spadger

Hi,

I am the father of three kids with varying degrees of autism. My eldest is 22, has Aspergers and on a positive note has recently started his first job but it is early days as yet.

The next is 18 (also has Aspergers) and we are finding it difficult to know how to help him towards a suitable, enjoyable long term career path. The youngest is 11 (High functioning autism) and although he is doing well within the specialist education environment, I am concerned about his future prospects.

Their seems to be little real government policy regarding supporting and assisting the huge volume of unemployed ASD people into sustainable employment despite most of them wanting to be in employment. 

In addition, given the strengths ASD individuals can offer to employers given the appropriate support and training, it seems to me that society is missing out on a massive valuable untapped resource.

I have recently started to investigate in more detail what opportunities are available and this led me to discover Specialisterne (Specialists), a Danish organisation that have developed a model for assisting ASD people into sustainable, professional, enjoyable work (usually testing software and data entry). http://specialistpeople.com/

In recent years they have developed a franchise style partnership model and as such have expanded into a number of countries the nearest being Scotland. http://www.specialisternescotland.org/

Does anyone know of any similar projects running or due to start in England, particularly the North West?

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  • Going to give the full aspie(135 IQ) comment,, the whole economy is a specialist extraction system,, meaning all job functions have been broken down in to relative knowledge sphere and thus functional boxes due to the specialism of labour(aka the industrial revolution), for the economy to grow.  However these boxed economical sectors must diversify into further specialist boxes again and again over time(hence you have capitalism to do so) or the countries economical state diminishes on the curve(aka diminishing return),, that is why in Japan, USA someone can make a living out of dog grooming, house watching etc etc etc... so you end up with a highly specialist or the so called advanced economy. MY POINT..., is caller. Smile  ASPERGERS IS THE HIGH FUNCTIONING SPECIALIST CONDITION, so we were made for the growth JOB MARKET. Goldman Sachs knows that and always employs Aspergers people as growth policy and that is why the USA Government are worried that there is not enough Autism to fill Silicon Valley, the brain drain. Makes you wonder, it does benefit policy(political will in roundtable circles) to have people with High functioning Autism.

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  • Going to give the full aspie(135 IQ) comment,, the whole economy is a specialist extraction system,, meaning all job functions have been broken down in to relative knowledge sphere and thus functional boxes due to the specialism of labour(aka the industrial revolution), for the economy to grow.  However these boxed economical sectors must diversify into further specialist boxes again and again over time(hence you have capitalism to do so) or the countries economical state diminishes on the curve(aka diminishing return),, that is why in Japan, USA someone can make a living out of dog grooming, house watching etc etc etc... so you end up with a highly specialist or the so called advanced economy. MY POINT..., is caller. Smile  ASPERGERS IS THE HIGH FUNCTIONING SPECIALIST CONDITION, so we were made for the growth JOB MARKET. Goldman Sachs knows that and always employs Aspergers people as growth policy and that is why the USA Government are worried that there is not enough Autism to fill Silicon Valley, the brain drain. Makes you wonder, it does benefit policy(political will in roundtable circles) to have people with High functioning Autism.

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