Social Skills Intervention: A Key Piece of the Employment Puzzle

• By: Michelle Gorenstein, PsyD Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Michele Shapiro AHRC New York City
• June 25th, 2021
• employment, job loss, social skills, Summer 2021 Issue, unemployment
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For the one-year period between April 2020 and March 2021, unemployment rates for people with disabilities in New York State averaged 16.2 percent, an increase of 8.9 percent over the prior year, according to the state Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics. This rate is...