Comments on Existence is Wonderful: Any Good Gudelines for Autistic Spectrum Adults in...

I don't know if he's published any guideli...

2009-08-09T02:15:45.175-07:00

I don't know if he's published
any guidelines, but a Danish
entrepeneur named Thorkil Sonne
staffs his tech company mostly
with people on the autism spectrum.
He seems to have definite ideas
about about how to make this work
well for all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialisterne

-L.M.

I looked at the Raymaker article and it seems to b...

2009-07-24T19:25:51.430-07:00

I looked at the Raymaker article and it seems to be targeted at service jobs. None of the examples were for college-educated autistics and I suspect that employers would quickly decide that someone else had a better portfolio if I asked for an alternate interview, let alone on-the-job help.

I could definitely use this, too, in about a year....

2009-07-24T19:20:30.102-07:00

I could definitely use this, too, in about a year. I'm tired of people offering me college accommodations based on listening to tapes when I have poor auditory processing. Same thing happened at the Department of Rehabilitation regarding their orientation. Then everyone gets hissy about my refusing their accommodation, because if it helped someone with a totally different condition, I should be grateful.

From what I recall, job posting descriptions tend ...

2009-07-11T07:40:31.537-07:00

From what I recall, job posting descriptions tend to state what's expected of the employee in their job role (and subsidiary training material tends to emphasize this too). Perhaps what's needed - what you can recommend - is a brief paragraph or two on what the employee expects from the company and their co-workers to facilitate getting their job done.

And every 6 months or so, such "job expectations" can be updated by both the employee and the company.

Sure some people don't know what they need in terms of accommodations until a bad accommodation has bitten them in the butt; but this really can't be helped with anything other than experience.

Having a periodically updated statement of expectations would allow each role to be specialized for the particular needs of the particular employee, and the particular needs of the particular job.

abfh: Oh interesting. I read change.org but...

2009-07-09T20:00:37.180-07:00

abfh: Oh interesting. I read change.org but must have missed that post.

I scanned over the article and there are some good things in there (like the AAC stuff and the suggestions to provide clear written instructions, etc.), but I am looking more for something that is more geared toward the employment period rather than about "setting up" a job situation.

Stephanie: Indeed, most of the material I h...

2009-07-09T19:42:38.778-07:00

Stephanie: Indeed, most of the material I have come across tends to have some things that apply to me and seem helpful, but other things that would be really bad for me if done.

Communication about that stuff is hard enough without misconceptions complicating things.

Dora Raymaker recommended an article on workplace ...

2009-07-09T11:31:00.030-07:00

Dora Raymaker recommended an article on workplace accommodations in a blog post she wrote in January. The article has plenty of suggestions and references; it can be found here.

Yeah, someone needs to write something decent beca...

2009-07-09T07:25:08.051-07:00

Yeah, someone needs to write something decent because all of the literature on this is horrible.