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14 Dec 2016, 2:36 am

Where is Autism Employment Heading in 2017? - Forbes


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14 Dec 2016, 2:51 am

unfortunately, it says very little about anybody other than the talented and highly educated 10-15% of us autists. it says almost nothing about on-the-job-educational initiatives by businesses for AS folk of average intelligence. whatever happened to OJT, anyways? :scratch:



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07 Jan 2017, 9:53 am

Yea ... unfortunately some of us didn't make it to college you know. Maybe not for intelligence purposes but others depending.