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Autism and Employment in Adulthood: Hope and Difficulties
From Special Education in Five Minutes · Hosted by David Poeschl
Episode summary
In this episode of Special Education in Five Minutes: While the unemployment rate for autistic adults is unacceptably high, both the way we count the numbers and how we define autism in adulthood affect the perception that autistic adults rarely work. In fact, up to 75% of autistic adults do not self-identify as such and so do not count towards the unemployment rate.
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While the unemployment rate for autistic adults is unacceptably high, both the way we count the numbers and how we define autism in adulthood affect the perception that autistic adults rarely work. In fact, up to 75% of autistic adults do not self-identify as such and so do not count towards the unemployment rate. The vast majority of this 75% are…