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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

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 wins regional Japanese language contest

February 27, 2017 By Rene

Jackson competed two weeks ago in our city’s Japanese language contest and WON FIRST PLACE for the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW! I marvel at how much progress he has made from the first to the third year in his ability to wait, his ability to not walk in and out of the room and […]

Filed Under: Autism, Employment, Growing up with autism, Linguistics Tagged With: autism, Autism Employment, Autism Intelligence, Japanese, Japanese language, Japanese Speech Contest, Linguistic Talent

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

  • 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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