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Article: Working for a living Workplace awareness helps those with autism become valued employees
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- March 31, 2009
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BLOOMINGTON -- What to do when the school bus stops coming is job
one for an increasing number of young adults with autism. | Autistic
worker a great fit for local employer | Video
With one in 150 American children and teenagers having some form
of autism, a rising societal concern is what happens to them when
they graduate from high school or college and need work.
With better diagnosis, more children and teens have been
identified as having autism since the 1990s, said Linda Kunce, a
licensed clinical psychologist involved in autism services,
including a local autism social group. More than 350 children in
McLean County alone have autism, said the Autism Society of McLean
County.
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