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“Job coaches can play a crucial role in building mutual understanding and high-quality relationships between managers and employees.” – Sustainable Employment Depends On Quality Relationships Between Supervisors and Their Employees On the Autism Spectrum
“The US Bureau of Labor reports that only 17% of transition-age youth with disabilities are employed. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Job interview skills are a critical component of job readiness training for transition-age youth. The study also found that the employment rate depended on the number of times the students practiced with the virtual role-players. For all categories, students who practiced 15 or more interviews gained employment 71% of the time within 6 months.” – Virtual Role-Players Help People with Autism or Other Disabilities Find Employment by Teaching Job Interview Skills
“Traditional recruitment process can work against autistic people because there are a lot of unwritten social cues, such as body language, which he doesn’t always pick up on.” – The Autism Advantage – Why Businesses Are Hiring Autistic People
Neurodivergent people on the Spectrum commonly have greater than normal capacity for processing information and are better able to detect information defined as ‘critical’ – People with autism possess greater ability to process information, study suggests
The Neurodivergent population will likely become a resource (untapped talent pool for STEM-related jobs) – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Participation Among College Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Data Skills of people on the Spectrum and – the need / opportunity in the workplace – Neurodiverse solution meets data skills demand