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Asperger Syndrome: Put Those Kids To
Work!
by Dan
Coulter 2004 |
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'Attentive'
cubicles help workers focus in busy offices
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noise and visual distractions when you're trying to work, and then opens
communication channels when you’re ready to socialize, is just one of the
innovative new devices developed by Queen’s University’s Human Media
Laboratory (HML). - Inventions from the Human Media Laboratory to
date have been effective in improving social interactions between
individuals and groups, and in augmenting people’s perceptual capabilities.
The next step, says the HML director, is to develop clinical devices for
treatment of attention-related disorders, by Queens University |
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Educational and Employment Experiences
of Adults - Paper by Sarah Boslaugh |
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‘Employment Champions’ for autism sought
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If you have a manager or an
employer who you feel has been a
champion when it comes to employing
people Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
then a national charity wants to hear
from you.
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Facing up to disability problem - Business bosses face potential
problems if disability means an employee can no longer do their job,
despite any 'reasonable adjustment' the employer might make to try to
resolve things. Solicitors Williamson and Soden warn that the
Disability Discrimination Act, which came into full force on October 1,
requires the employer to consider transferring the disabled worker to a
different job. |
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Gourmet Food and a Helping Hand
Although autism is not a mental illness,
this article from the "Christian Science
Monitor" shows what can happen when a
community works together to provide
vocational support for individuals with
disabilities. |
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Helping Students with AS Prepare for the
Workplace by
Julie Coulter |
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HHS Celebrates
National Disability Employment Awareness Month - HHS Secretary Tommy
G. Thompson and Margaret Giannini, M.D., Director, Office on Disability,
will host a celebration to commemorate October's National Disability
Employment Awareness Month. Secretary Thompson will present the
Secretary's Highest Recognition Award to the honorees, who have aided the
advances of the Americans with Disabilities Act and President Bush's New
Freedom Initiative. The New Freedom Initiative is aimed at eliminating
barriers that keep Americans with disabilities from participating fully in
community life by Yahoo Finance / Press Release |
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Hints For Employers by
Anonymous |
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Job Club rekindles hopes for employment
- For Matthew Connell, this has been a pretty lousy year. He was laid off in
March from his $29,000-a-year call center job for an Internet service
provider. After that, he spent some time learning the home loan brokerage
business, but that effort did not pan out. After running out of savings and
reaching the limit on his credit cards, his family went on welfare in
October. And then last month, an arsonist torched one of the family's
vehicles outside their Carmichael apartment, by Bill Lindelof |
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NY Firm's
Disabled Workers Serve as an Example And an Inspiration - Thomas
P. Rosicki of Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates has a unique approach for
inspiring his employees. With offices in Carle Place, Central Islip,
Fishkill and Buffalo, the firm, led by Mr. Rosicki and his wife, Cynthia,
employs about 230 people. Ten percent of the workers are disabled, by Andrew
Harris |
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The Gear Foundation Everyone in a
community benefits when adults with
disabilities Gain Employment And
Respect. GEAR is in Tennessee and is a
model for communities to assist in
employing the disabled. |
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Working With a Disability Having a
disability doesn't need to keep one from
having a productive career. Many people
with disabilities can work and the jobs
they can hold vary with each
individual's abilities and limitations.
An article from the Career Planning
guide at About explains the laws that
protect a disabled person's ability to
work. |
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"I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical.
Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin."
~ Jerry Newport