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The difficulties encountered by autistic people on the job market have multiple explanations, [147] linked among other things to communication and social interactions with employers and colleagues, [148] to their sensory hypersensitivities, [83] [102] but also to a work environment unsuited to their disability, [24] and to a lack of ...
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...
Businesses, employment organisations, specialist support groups and autistic people will be asked to identify barriers to work. Businesses, employment organisations, specialist support groups and ...
Research from insurance group Zurich, where Mr Gawthorn works, found 49 per cent of the 6m neurodivergent people in the UK - those with ADHD, Autism, Dyspraxia and Dyslexia - said they have been ...
Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Autistic people are also less likely to graduate from secondary school, college, or other forms of higher education, further contributing to high rates of unemployment and lower quality of life. [8] [9] This failure to successfully complete education can be in part attributed to a lack of support from educational institutions.
To reiterate Jimmy’s comment, people with autism are not broken and therefore they do not need to be fixed. What is broken are our systems that do not create equitable ways for everyone to ...
Typically, for people with autism or Asperger's, one of the areas that is less actively-wired than average is the area dealing with innate comprehension of some social interactions as well as with some other functions which are processed in the same area. This means that some things just "don't come naturally" in the way that they do for ...