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Some Changes and an Interesting Article! (inc. Magazine Article)

Surprise! As you can see, I have changed the way this website looks. I didn’t really love the way the old page looked and the print was way too small for me. I like this much better, but the mountain picture has nothing to do with autism or employment, so please bear with me whileContinue reading “Some Changes and an Interesting Article! (inc. Magazine Article)”

Supervising Employees with Autism (Hagner and Cooney)

“I Do That for Everybody”: Supervising Employees with Autism Introduction: This is another often cited paper where supervisors of 14 successfully employed individuals with autism (at various organizations)  were interviewed regarding their employees with ASD. It should be noted that the 14 employees all had some connection with an employment support service. This is anContinue reading “Supervising Employees with Autism (Hagner and Cooney)”

Transformational Leadership Style and ASD (Parr, Hunter, and Ligon)

Questioning Universal Applicability of Transformational leadership: Examining employees with Autism Spectrum Disorder Introduction: I think that this paper is super cool; it’s a really interesting take on leaders and employees with ASD. The research is done by several I/O psychologists and they conducted an experiment to test the universal applicability of transformational leadership (description belowContinue reading “Transformational Leadership Style and ASD (Parr, Hunter, and Ligon)”

Employees with ASD: Some Challenges and Strategies (Hendricks)

Summary: This paper reviews evidence-based research on the topic of employment for individuals with ASD. If you were to pick just a few papers to read on the topic, I believe this is a great pick. It is relatively recent (look, we work slowly in academia), is a great overview (covers other good papers), isContinue reading “Employees with ASD: Some Challenges and Strategies (Hendricks)”