Tag: Talents
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Accessing the Autistic Skill Set 3. Ripening and Growing Part 1
I hope I have now provided guidelines into how to get to respect and understand the autistic person, and their immense skill set. I will now tell you how to understand them better and build on this and help ripen and grow them. This requires teamwork and patience. When doing this and anything else when…
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Meditation reveals your true self — The English Introvert
I think we all need a reboot from time to time. We forget who we are because we are so overloaded with electronic stimulus and an emotional onslaught from all of the baggage that is carried around by all those we come into contact with. This affects us more than we realise. It lodges itself […]…
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How Technology Can Shrink the Autism Employment Gap — Autisable
Adults on the autism spectrum face significant barriers to employment, with 85 percent of college-educated adults with autism unemployed. While adults with autism may have the hard skills needed to do a job, they often struggle with the soft skills required to get hired and stay employed. While some employers — Microsoft, SAP, and Ernst […]…
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Accessing the Autistic skill set 2. Respect and Understanding Part 2
Understand our preferred forms of communication, mindset and that if you are patient you will open a box of skills to be treasured and nurtured.
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5 Important Qualities of Leadership — Dr. Eric Perry
Written by Dr. Eric Perry Image Credit: Pixabay “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~John Quincy Adams Whether we are trying to lead a country or a household, we must remember it is both a privilege and a challenge to be given…
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Accessing the Autistic skill set 2. Respect and Understanding Part 1
Like with anyone there is a lot to consider when respecting and understanding others. However with autistic people this has it’s own challenges in addition to working with Neurotypical and helping us settle in and feel relaxed at work, and flourish with the company Ways to help get to know the person and therefore learn…
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Accessing the Autistic skill Set – 1. Recruitment and Interviews
I will go into further detail about the guidelines I have drawn up for helping get people with autism into and keeping. I am starting with issues applying for jobs and flourishing at interviews. Only 16% of people with autism are in work. More want to be. We have great skills to offer, often in…
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Learning languages with autism — The English Introvert
I have long wondered how is it that I have dedicated countless hours over the years to this task yet I’m still unable to speak? I know it’s possible as I can do it in a pinch and I have written about the methods which have allowed many others to do just that. It turns […]…
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Accessing the autistic skill set – an introduction
The symptom of those on the autistic spectrum can often be viewed negatively, as in the film The Rainman. Raymond the autistic brother initially appears to have nothing but negatives in his behaviours. Yet he has amazing memory for remembering the sequence of cards in a pack. As I have mentioned in a previous blog…
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Autism – Being a foreigner in your own land, constantly trying to fit in
I have autism and have spent my life trying to fit in at school and work. Failing a lot of the time. It can feel like acting on day, a foreigner in your own land, standing out, however hard you try. How do we stand out so easily? By what we say, how we say…
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