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lady lib

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Fri Feb 24, 2012, 01:36 PM Feb 2012

Placement Service a Boon for People with Asperger's

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,817166,00.html

Many people with Asperger's syndrome have difficulties in the job market and workplace, but they also have special abilities that many employers crave. A Danish company has found a way to bring the two together and is exporting its successful job-placement concept to other countries.

Recognizing Oft-Hidden Talents

In 2004, Sonne established a company in Copenhagen called Specialisterne, or "the Specialists." The company hires autistic people like Kjaer and places them in projects, primarily with IT companies, where they analyze software, manage data and write programs.

Sonne says that he didn't start the company for charitable reasons. He wants the work performed by his employees to matter, and he wants their talents to be recognized -- talents that are hard to convey in formal job interviews.
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Placement Service a Boon for People with Asperger's (Original Post) lady lib Feb 2012 OP
Someone should start a similar SheilaT Feb 2012 #1
 

SheilaT

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1. Someone should start a similar
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:22 PM
Feb 2012

service in this country.

I really like it that they work on teaching the Aspies specific social skills.

My son with Asperger's is a phenomenal employee precisely because he just does the work. He's fortunate to have found a CAD job recently. It's been a contract position and has so far been extended three months beyond the original six month term. I understand that the location where he works (it's a relatively small office of a large engineering firm with offices and work sites all around the world) would like to get him on permanently, and keep on extending him while they try to persuade the home office.

Not long out of high school he had a part time job entering data from a large medical research study, and they just loved him there. They found they could stick him in a back room, he'd enter the data all day, and emerge at closing time.

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