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What Happens When They Grow Up: Teens and Young Adults with Autism
The cover story on this week's Newsweek magazine is entitled What Happens When They Grow Up: Teenagers and young adults are the emerging face of autism as the disorder continues to challenge science and unite determined families.
Full text (Newsweek online via MSNBC.com)
Health Care and Workplace - Disabled workers thrive in right environment
Thomas Muench came across as shy when he started working at Bank of America five years ago. He stuck to simple tasks such as data entry.
There was a good reason, though: Muench is autistic. But luckily his managers in the loan processing office saw he had potential.
"As I learned my job and got better at the work, the bank expanded my role," Muench said recently, writing his responses in an e-mail. "The bank continues to support me advancing my career and it allows me to play on a level playing field doing the same work as my other colleagues."
Link ( In Business Las Vegas)
Posted by Teri Blankenship on November 13, 2006
Mastering ADHD on the Job
Strategies and the right workplace help people with the brain disorder.
The only thing good that career salesman Alan Currie could say about himself on the day he accepted a high-stakes sales job five years ago was that at least he managed to sell himself into a job. He didn't deserve it, he told himself. "I'm a complete fraud."
Link (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Posted by Teri Blankenship on November 13, 2006
College Bound preps students with disabilities
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes furiously, others napping.
Near the front, Evelyn Scruggs will fill an entire page during the course of the hourlong class. But she will not remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote by the time she packs her bookbag to leave.
Link (The Washington Times)
Employees With Cognitive Disability Barriers Emerge as Assets
WASHINGTON -- When Kathryn Giordano, director of administration at Baker Botts LLP, suggested to Pat Berry that his daughter come work at his law firm for the summer, he shook his head in disbelief.
"I thought no, not a law firm," he said. "It was absolutely scary."
Link (From Star Tribune)
Posted by Teri Blankenship on November 6, 2006
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