Saturday, July 25, 2009

Better, faster... and no office politics: the company with the autistic specialists

A pioneering dad has created a company in Denmark that helps people with autism and Asperger’s syndrome find employment in the computer tech industry. Founder Thorkil Sonne says many of these people, who share a diagnosis with his son, possess extraordinary recall, focus and numerical skills that are much prized in the workplace. His company, called Specialisterne, …

"is a shining model of how to turn a highly skilled yet misunderstood and underexploited element of the population … into productive and integrated members of the workforce."

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