Maggi Dawn » employment http://maggidawn.com Author, musician and theologian Tue, 08 May 2012 18:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Autism and employment http://maggidawn.com/autism-and-employment/ http://maggidawn.com/autism-and-employment/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:07 +0000 maggi dawn http://dev.maggidawn.com/autism-and-employment/ Thorkil sonne Someone sent me the link to this brilliant story about a Danish man, Thorkill Sonne, who set up a company to make use of the particular skills of people with Autism. The father of a son with Aspergers syndrome, he found that too many of the things he read talked about what people with ASD’s can’t do. He wanted to make something of what they can do.

Imagine a job testing Lego and robots. In a quiet, peaceful and well structured environment, where  someone who can concentrate for long periods on some tricky little task is appreciated as a uniquely wonderful person. Asperger heaven. I hope such environments will be commonplace by the time my own remarkable, clever and talented son grows up.

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