Supporting Students with Autism Through Evidence-Based Employment Intervention

• By: Dianne Zager, PhD Shrub Oak International School
• July 1st, 2018
• employment, Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction, summer 2018 issue, transition, unemployment, Universal Design for Transition
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Unemployment rates for people with disabilities currently are hovering around 80%, with even higher rates for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017). Over the past several decades, employment outcomes for students with autism have remained consistently poor...

Improving Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Autism

• By: Marcia Scheiner Asperger Syndrome Training and Employment Partnership (ASTEP)
• April 1st, 2014
• employment, job placement, unemployment, vocational rehabilitation
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In 2013, a study published by Professor Paul Shattuck, then at Washington University, reported on the outcomes for young adults on the autism spectrum. From Shattuck’s study, we learned that just over half (53.4 percent) of the young adults on the autism spectrum surveyed had ever worked for pay...

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)....