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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

Art show a BIG success

March 31, 2018 By Rene

Imagine a room full of acceptance, a place where the artistic spirit is revered, a place of celebration of differences, where families and people on the spectrum, regardless of intensity of symptoms, are fawned over for the creative gifts that they bring to the community. Well, now you are picturing the art opening for “Viewpoints: […]

Filed Under: Art, Autism, Autism Society of Texas, Careers in Art, Growing up with autism, work skills Tagged With: Art Exhibits, Art shows, artistic inspiration, austin public library, autism art, Autism Intelligence, Working Artist

The Future is Autism

December 10, 2017 By Rene

To be encouraged by the chances of people on the autism spectrum being gainfully employed one day, read “Why the Australian Defence is Recruiting Cyber Analysts on the Autism Spectrum,” written by Robert D. Austin, Michael Fieldhouse, Aiyaswami Mohan, and Peter Quinn in the December 07, 2017 issue of the Harvard Business Review. This is one […]

Filed Under: Employment, Growing up with autism, Linguistics, Transition Planning, work skills Tagged With: autism, Autism Employment, Autism Talent, Autism Transition planning, Disability employment, Harvard Business Review, Transition planning, Working Artist

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

Jackson’s Holiday Show a Success!

January 28, 2017 By Rene

  Jackson held an art show on December 11 and we had about 60 people come by during our two-hour Holiday Sale and Show. We displayed pen and ink drawings that Jackson created in his art classes over the last few years. These will be on display at an Austin hair salon’s art gallery for […]

Filed Under: Art, Autism, Autism Education, Autism Society of Texas, Growing up with autism, Thanks, work skills Tagged With: art, art exhibit, autism art, Autism Society of Texas, bex+co salon, Christmas art show, Holiday Art Show, JacksonsEyeTV, outsider art, Society6, Working Artist

Why tests can’t measure intelligence with autism

October 31, 2016 By Rene

My son loves to write stories, books and songs. He spends the majority of his free time writing. In fact, we (me and my group of dedicated volunteers) have several books written by Jackson that we are working on publishing in 2017. One of these is a collection of poetry about sacred bodies of water. […]

Filed Under: Autism, Autism Education, Growing up with autism, work skills Tagged With: artistic inspiration, autism, Autism Artists, Autism Authors, Autism Intelligence, Autism Poetry, End the Tests, O Brother Where Art Thou, Odyssey, Special Education, Standardized Tests

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

From the Blog

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  • “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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