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Suburban company provides employment opportunities for people with autism

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CHICAGO (WLS) — April is Nationwide Autism Consciousness Month, celebrating the variations and selling acceptance of autistic people round us.

Research present adults recognized with autism spectrum dysfunction battle with unemployment or below employment at an alarmingly excessive price. Based on a examine by the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, younger adults with autism had the bottom price of employment in comparison with their friends.

“Whereas 58% of these on the autism spectrum ever labored throughout their early 20s, over 90% of younger adults with emotional disturbance, speech impairment, or studying incapacity ever labored, in addition to 74% of younger adults with mental incapacity,” the report stated.

Dave Friedman is the CEO and founding father of AutonomyWorks, a corporation within the Chicago suburbs working to create jobs for the multiple million potential staff with Autism Spectrum Problems. AutonomyWorks leverages the distinctive skills and skills of individuals with autism to offer their purchasers with important providers. Their mission: to alter the way in which the world views folks with autism.

Friedman inform us extra about how his firm helps to bridge the chance hole for folks with autism.

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