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Video credit: The Dandelion Program
One man founded a company to give jobs to people with autism. Thorkil Sonne from Denmark created Specialisterne Foundation after becoming the father of a son with an autism spectrum disorder.
His son was given the diagnosis “infantile autism, normal intelligence” at age 3, Thorkil decided to start the company and became the president of a local chapter of Autism Denmark.
After 15 years of working with IT within telecommunication companies, he learned the value of skills in people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
According to BrighVibes: ‘’The mission of Specialisterne is to collect and share the knowledge that will help people with autism thrive and excel on the labor market by:
- Supporting the development and international roll-out of Specialisterne – local licences that base their business model on the concept of assessing, training and employing people with autism.
ADVERTISEMENT - Support labor market stakeholders in the integration of people with autism into the labor market.
- Create respect and awareness of the skills and rights of people with autism based on the UN Convention, The Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
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“Teaching employers to see neurodiversity as a competitive advantage through:
- Leadership in their industry
- Productivity gains
- Quality Improvement
- Access to an untapped talent pool
- Better management practices
- Reputational enhancement
- Increased innovative capabilities
- Broad increases in employee engagement’’
According to WebMD: “Autism is a complex neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in social interaction and developmental language and communication skills combined with rigid, repetitive behaviors.
Because of the range of symptoms, this condition is now called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It covers a large spectrum of symptoms, skills, and levels of impairment. ASD ranges in severity from a handicap that somewhat limits an otherwise normal life to a devastating disability that may require institutional care.
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