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Genevieve Edmonds
Luke Beardon
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Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | ||
ISBN | 9781843106487 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Employment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. The adults with AS in this book explore the issues surrounding employment, providing advice and insights for others with AS, as well as their employers and colleagues.Drawing on personal experience and lessons learned, "Asperger Syndrome and Employment" looks at: the transition from education to employment; the importance of matching skills to career choices; practical coping strategies for employees with AS in the workplace; advice for employers, including the need to make 'reasonable adjustments' to avoid discrimination; and, ways in which employment services ought to work for people with AS.
This is essential reading for adults with AS, their family and friends, employment services and career advisers, and companies needing to know how, in practical terms, to accommodate employees with AS.Employment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. The adults with AS in this book explore the issues surrounding employment, providing advice and insights for others with AS, as well as their employers and colleagues.Drawing on personal experience and lessons learned, "Asperger Syndrome and Employment" looks at: the transition from education to employment; the importance of matching skills to career choices; practical coping strategies for employees with AS in the workplace; advice for employers, including the need to make 'reasonable adjustments' to avoid discrimination; and, ways in which employment services ought to work for people with AS.This is essential reading for adults with AS, their family and friends, employment services and career advisers, and companies needing to know how, in practical terms, to accommodate employees with AS.
Review
Aspergers Syndrome and Employment is a series of stories told by Adults who speak out about Aspergers Syndrome ofn the subject of employment and was edited by Genevieve Edmonds and Luke Beardon.
This book covers topics which people with AS talk about the jobs they can or may be able to do. There are sixteen people that talk about their stories and the work situation.There are talks about how some bosses can and do accept people with AS and how one person Dean talks to his line manager Paul about what it is to have aspergers.
I found this a very interesting and resourscefull book for those, just about to enter the workplace and for those who have been lately diagnosed and yet wonder why their bosses do not understand them, and how their brains work and are wired.
I know as someone that defied the system till being diagnosed last year at the age of 56 with AS that sometimes you can work your way through a work placement and yet in your own mind be very confused about what is happening around you and be overwhelmed.
Please take heart from this book and realise that you are not the only one and that there are people out there to support and place you in the right environment and help you have a worthwile employment and take great pleasure from your position.
This book really does tell the good the bad and the indifferent reactions to people with AS and the way they have been treated. But the stories are by real people and there is plenty of help and imformation to get you on the right road to a great job.
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