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First Job for Jackson

July 31, 2018 By Rene

Vocational research on special populations shows that young adults with disabilities that hold paid employment by age 18 have a much greater chance of being employed as an adult. With this in mind, even though it was a stretch goal for Jackson, he signed up to be a part of our community’s Goodwill summer jobs […]

Filed Under: Employment, Transition, Transition Planning, work skills Tagged With: Autism Employment, First Job, Goodwill Industries, Inclusion Employment, Neurodiversity, Transition planning

End of the Year Thoughts

May 31, 2018 By Rene

Well, friends, it’s the end of another school year. At this time of year, I always take stock of how far we’ve come and how much we still have to accomplish, Jackson and me, on his march to independence. We have three years left to achieve this before we are done with public school. All […]

Filed Under: Autism Education, Transition, Transition Planning Tagged With: autism, Autism Future, Autism Talent, Autism Transition, Special Education, Special Healthcare needs, Transition planning

Transitioning into Adulthood with Autism

April 30, 2017 By Rene

Jackson has now reached the age where our state has “transition services” as a part of his IEP planning. So, that means that we are busy, in Jackson’s world trying to get him ready to perform some kind of skill for money…you know, go to work! So, we set up this website where we sell […]

Filed Under: Careers in Art, Employment, Growing up with autism, Transition, Transition Planning, work skills Tagged With: Acting, autism, Autism Artists, Autism Employment, Autism Future, Autism Interests, Autism Talent, Improv, Special Needs art classes, Working Artist

Entrepreneurism and Autism

June 12, 2016 By Rene

All day long, every day, Jackson is “working” on projects in his office. (His father and I created what we thought he would use as an art studio, but he quickly dubbed it, “My office.”) Most days, he goes to school or camp, pays attention as best he can, and yet as soon as he’s […]

Filed Under: Autism, Employment, Growing up with autism, Transition, work skills Tagged With: art, autism, Autism Employment, Autism Future, Autism Interests, Autism Talent, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurism

Transition to Adulthood

May 12, 2015 By Rene

Ask any parent of a child with special needs, and most parents will say the thing that scares them the most is the day that the school bus stops coming, the day that children “opt out” of school services anywhere between the ages of 18 and 22. So, with this worry always on my mind, […]

Filed Under: Autism, Employment, Transition, Transition Planning

From the Blog

  • Support Texas Artists With Disabilities September 8, 2021
  • “Christ has been born” Pencil on paper by Jackson December 12, 2020
  • Time to Deck the Halls with New Art from Jackson’s EyeTV December 2, 2019
  • Autism Inclusion Works November 7, 2019
  • Time flies, but gratitude is forever July 31, 2019

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