Tackling the Unemployment Crisis for Adults with Asperger Syndrome

• By: Marcia Scheiner Asperger Syndrome Training and Employment Partnership (ASTEP)
• October 1st, 2011
• adults, Asperger’s, employment, jobs, unemployment
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Those of us who are touched by autism – either personally or professionally – are all too aware of the statistics for this population. In its most recent estimates, the Center for Disease control projects that 1 in 110 individuals in the U.S. are born with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)....

Summer Jobs

• By: Carole N. Kalvar Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Association (AHA)
• July 1st, 2009
• adolescents, employment, executive function skills, interviews, summer
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For most of us a first summer was a kind of rite of passage. Motivated by making some money and by trying on a more adult role way we were ready to take on the responsibilities of work. Knowing we had to commit ourselves to a set work schedule, to learning and performing unfamiliar tasks, to...