tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post1592229912358657024..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: Will ASTEP be a misstep?jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-91392815926817721472012-09-03T15:45:32.182-07:002012-09-03T15:45:32.182-07:00it was more than twenty years ago. As I recall, u...it was more than twenty years ago. As I recall, under ADEPT's program, you disclosed to the prospective employer that you had a disability. If hired, adept would pay them about half of your salary for the first month. That's all they provided. <br /><br />I had to look for the jobs myself. I was fired from the first job after a month for not doing the reports fast enough (at least that's the reason they gave me). I found another job after that and they declined to make an agreement with ADEPT but kept me on for more than two years. They were being investigated for helping attorneys in fradulent workers' comp claims and ran out of work and fired me first as the most expendable employee. They went out of business not long after the principals of the company were indicted. Hope that answers your questions. No job reviews at either place. jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-22149060768087411312012-09-03T14:11:57.119-07:002012-09-03T14:11:57.119-07:00Jonathan, maybe this is due to my own poor communi...Jonathan, maybe this is due to my own poor communication skills but I'm not sure if you understood what I was asking or not.<br /><br />If you do not mind I would like to make sure I am understanding the facts of this. You joined Adept to try to obtain their services am I correct? <br /><br />These jobs that you tried to apply for would not make a deal with you or adept except one in which you lasted a month and another in which you lasted for 2 years. Is this correct?<br /><br />How did the adept program work? Did they apply on your behalf or did you have to apply yourself? What exactly was adept's role with you? What services was Adept supposed to provide to you exactly?<br /><br />With respect to the employers who completely rejected you and adept did they give you or Adept a set of reasons why they would not hire you? If yes, what were they? <br /><br />With respect to the employer who only kept you for 2 months did they state a reason to either adept or you as to why you were let go? Did you have any issues with any of your co-workers or your bosses that you know of?<br /><br />With respect to the employer that kept you for 2 years, why did they let you go after two years? Did they state a reason to you or Adept? <br /><br /> Did you have major problems with any of your supervisors or co-workers? Did anyone ever make a formal complaint against you at either job? <br /><br />Did you ever receive any performance reviews and if yes, what did say at either job? A better future for allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03815949082061415658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-82308712090767828002012-09-01T16:21:43.280-07:002012-09-01T16:21:43.280-07:00Cube: The place that hired me where i worked more...Cube: The place that hired me where i worked more than two years when I was getting help from ADEPT just stated that they preferred to work with me themself, which they did for more than two years. jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-50265993702373526412012-09-01T12:44:52.225-07:002012-09-01T12:44:52.225-07:00"The jobs that I applied for, for the most pa..."The jobs that I applied for, for the most part did not want to hire me and make an agreement with ADEPT."<br /><br />I have a question about what you said. Dad any of these places ever give any reasons that they did not want to hire you and make an agreement with ADEPT? If yes, will you please state them right here if you do not mind? A better future for allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03815949082061415658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-43806106868141306222011-02-20T07:49:18.747-08:002011-02-20T07:49:18.747-08:00There is nothing that could have been done to supp...There is nothing that could have been done to support me that would have made it easierjonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-54647835271080062342011-02-20T07:14:55.991-08:002011-02-20T07:14:55.991-08:00I think the web site for ASTEP looks good and give...I think the web site for ASTEP looks good and gives very valuable links. What they offer might not be perfect (i would not know and only time will tell), but it is good to see more and more of these developments happening in the US and in the UK. <br /><br />In Edinburgh, the employment of people with is supported by an agency called into work. They assist placements of people with AS, initially as volunteers, by speaking to the potential employer and monitoring how well the person does. They are of course knowledgeable of how AS can interfere with work. However, there is no programme that can assist in gaining the skills/ or set ups a person could benefit from. <br /><br />I would think it would be very possible to build in, on a case by case basis, a "learning plan" that could assist with some of the issues the person may be having. For example, a person who tend to speak too much, interfering with other's work could be helped to recognize that it would be better to keep the talking to brake times only. Another example is when the person is starting to engage in non-productive conflictual dialogue, such person could be assisted to recognize that that it's one of those conflict times again, and it would be better to focus on x, y instead and perhaps steam off elsewhere for a little while. Equally coworkers could be briefed on the best possible answer, to avoid poring fuel on a fire. There are many ways to accommodates these differences, but these accommodations require a motivation to help the person in the first place and some knowledge of the condition. <br /><br />A greater tolerance towards a disability can be achieved with knowledge, and exposure of positive experiences of inclusion. Transparency is needed too, at least for those individual's who's autism will truly interfere with their ability to work and functioning within the community. <br /><br />Those motivated to hire some people on the spectrum might for now primarily be those who have a personal experience of the condition. There is for example a very successful Danish company that has recently set up a franchise in Glasgow, called Specialisterne Scotland.<br /><br />"The Danish firm now employs more than 50 people and has a turnover of around £1.5 million. It uses the characteristics and skills which some people with autism excel in i.e. insight, precision and consistency, to create market-rate jobs and provide IT services to businesses around the world."<br /><br />The trainees will undergo a four month training programme which will include using LEGO Mindstorm and robotics to identify and match their skills to work tasks. To ensure that trainees can achieve their full potential, a working environment will be created with a high degree of planning, predictability, systemisation and minimal stress.<br /><br />Gerry Higgins, Chief Executive of Govan-based CEiS, said: "We know from the experience in Denmark, that Specialisterne Scotland has the potential to change lives for the better by providing mainstream employment at the market rate for people with autism, while transforming recruitment attitudes and business practices.<br /><br />From your experience of employment Jonathan, what would have been the most helpful support you could have benefited from? (other than a cure).SM69https://www.blogger.com/profile/16239400845268784984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-37107405073835215202011-02-18T09:34:56.831-08:002011-02-18T09:34:56.831-08:00Also it is rumored that a person high up in his ad...Also it is rumored that a person high up in his advocacy organization is the retired neurodiversity blogger "the autistic bitch from hell" who has stated that those of us with ASD's on/or applying to be on the dole are nothing but lazy loafers who don't want to take responsibility for our lives so we spend time interfering with the noble individuals of this advocacy organization who are trying to do something about job discrimination against autistic persons.<br /><br />Don't forget that Meg Evans doesn't have an autism or even an Asperger's diagnosis and spent many years astroturfing as another individual. Not only doesn't she have a diagnosis, but she is connected personally in no way with autism at all as neither of her children has an ASD either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com