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In 2010 American psychiatrist and researcher Dawn Hendricks published Employment and adults with autism spectrum disorders: Challenges and strategies for success. Highlighting the very low employment rate and the desire of adults with autism to work, [31] she argued for the option of employment support to be made available to all. [32]
Businesses, employment organisations, specialist support groups and autistic people will be asked to identify barriers to work. New review aims to close employment gap for people with autism Skip ...
[5] Furthermore, according to the UK Office for National Statistics, the unemployment rate of autistic people may reach 85%, the highest rate among all disabled groups studied. It is noted that in many countries autism is not a disability protected by anti-discrimination employment laws, and this is due to many corporations lobbying against it. [6]
Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism [1] come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. [2] The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps; the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm.
Children ages 5 to 8 had the highest autism rate at 30.3 diagnoses per 1,000 children in 2022. The second-highest rate was children 4 and younger at 28.8 per 1,000 children. Study tracks growing ...
In 2002, 1 in every 150 eight-year-old children received an ASD diagnosis. In 2020, the figure was 1 in every 36, according to the CDC.
The Autism Plans recommend increasing school enrolment rates for children, as well as employment for adults. However, in a report to be published in March 2019, the ONU is calling on France to embark on a genuine policy of deinstitutionalization.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization run by and for individuals on the autism spectrum. ASAN advocates for the inclusion of autistic people in decisions that affect them, including: legislation, depiction in the media, and disability services.