Corporate Neurodiversity Hiring Programs: Scratching the Surface?

• By: Marcia Scheiner Integrate Autism Employment Advisors
• January 1st, 2020
• corporate jobs, employment, hiring, neurodiversity, unemployment, winter 2020 issue
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In 2010, neurodiversity hiring program, Integrate Autism Employment Advisors (“Integrate”, originally known as The Asperger Syndrome Training & Employment Partnership), was started to engage Fortune 1000 companies in hiring autistic college graduates. In March 2013, SAP announced that it...

Creating a Win-Win When Hiring People with Autism: How One Small Company Made it Work

• By: Patricia Rowan, LMSW Kid’s Connection
• April 1st, 2014
• employment, hiring
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A wave of high school and college graduates with talent, ability, and a tremendous capacity to contribute are hitting the job market but they are not getting hired. Recent statistics show that 75% of people with autism spectrum disorders are either unemployed or under employed. Many of those that...