employment

Training for Employers on Workplace Diversity and Asperger Syndrome

As part of our continued segment on Employment, today we bring you a sample of ASTEP’s (Asperger Syndrome Training & Employment Partnership) training offerings for Employers. Seeking employment is a crucial topic for those with Aspergers and High Functioning Autism. Let’s look at the critical tools, tips, and training forContinue Reading

Temple Grandin Explains: Choosing the Right Job for People with ASD

By: Jennifer Allen

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Jobs need to be chosen that make use of the strengths of people with Autism or Asperger’s syndrome. Both high and low functioning people have very poor short-term working memory, but they often have a better long-term memory than most neurotypicals. I have great difficulty with tasks that put highContinue Reading

Using “Cold Calling” to Get Information on Possible Employment

By: Maggie Cromeens

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Cold calling is: calling up a person or business and informing them that you are interested in employment. This can sound intimidating, but it can be very effective for opening the doors to the hidden job market. Cold calling allows you to possibly learn about a job that is notContinue Reading

Hard Skills with Aspergers: Teachable Abilities and Skill Sets in the Workplace

By: Maggie Cromeens

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I have often been asked: What is the hardest part of your job? The majority of the time the answer is discovering what skills my clients have to offer to an employer. As an employment specialist I recognize that prospective employers are talking about hard skills. So, what are hard skills? Hard skillsContinue Reading

Deciding if a Job is Right For You: The Work Assessment

By: Maggie Cromeens

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If you were given the chance to work at a job you were interested in for a few hours to assess your skills and abilities, and to decide if you are comfortable and really enjoy it before starting the application process would you do it? This is called a work assessment,Continue Reading

What to Know When Coworking With Someone With Autism

By: Gabriela Lemos

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by: Dave Gentry Never forget to pump a handshake three times- not one, and definitely not five.Seen from an autistic perspective, the social, shared, and flexible attributes of the modern shared office can be intimidating. As work and life spill into each other, they clash with coping mechanisms for autism spectrumContinue Reading

Customer Service with Aspergers: Greeting Customers with a Smile

By: Kirt Manecke

With: 6 Comments

One of the most important job skills every employee, including those on the autism spectrum, must learn is how to greet a customer properly. If employees learn this valuable skill, they will be way ahead of the pack. Their employer will notice and customers will become life-long evangelists. Many employeesContinue Reading

Maximize Potential in the Workplace

By: Gabriela Lemos

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My job is to bring people together—to create an environment where the employee can maximize their potential and an employer can utilize that potential. As an employment specialist for Compass Resource Group one of my first steps in trying to uncover their potential is to assess the soft and hardContinue Reading

The Art of a Job Interview When You Have Asperger’s

By: Jennifer Allen

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I left school in 1994 and had my first job interviews in the same year. I was, like most Aspies both then and now, full of nerves fueled by a strong desire to make the right impression. What I hope to do here is outline what I did to overcomeContinue Reading

Asperger Syndrome, Employment, & Social Security Benefits

By: Jennifer Allen

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Asperger Syndrome (AS) is such a recent diagnostic category in the U.S. that most of the individuals who carry it are children or adolescents. We are only now developing a fund of experience that can anticipate and meet schoolchildren’s needs; we know even less about the typical vocational functioning andContinue Reading

Communicating to an Interviewer About Your Diagnosis

By: Maggie Cromeens

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Q: How should one go about communicating to an interviewer a brief summary of the world of Asperger’s Syndrome? This is a really great question. There is a saying that goes: if you’ve met one person with Aspergers . . . you’ve met one person with Aspergers. I believe this statementContinue Reading

Rejection with ASD and Best Practices for How to Handle it

By: Maverick Crawford

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Being a person on the Autism Spectrum and dealing with abuse from many places, I understand that being rejected is tough. Having Autism, I never felt that I fit in with the ‘normal’ children. I had to sit away from everyone in class and was seen as being weird orContinue Reading

Training for Employers on Workplace Diversity and Asperger Syndrome

Temple Grandin Explains: Choosing the Right Job for People with ASD

Hard Skills with Aspergers: Teachable Abilities and Skill Sets in the Workplace

Maximize Potential in the Workplace

The Art of a Job Interview When You Have Asperger’s

Communicating to an Interviewer About Your Diagnosis

Coping to Excelling DVD

The Autism Charm (Bracelet)