Improving Vocational Rehabilitation Services for Adults with ASD

• By: Yvona Fast, MLS GRASP
• July 1st, 2012
• actually autistic, adults, employment, job coach, jobs
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According to recent data, just 15% of autism spectrum adults have full-time jobs, and 7 years after high school, 1/3 of young ASD adults still have no paid work experience. Many of those who are employed have checkered work careers, going from one job to another with long periods of...

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
• 11856    1

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)....