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Making Employment Fit:
Accommodations & Other Dirty Words

In 2004, I presented at Autreat on issues of employment among autistic people. Many autistic people find employment extremely challenging at best, a living hell at worst. This presentation attempts to suggest where to look for employment and how to negotiate for accommodations to the workplace environment. When autistics are employed in areas of their interests and working for managers who have the flexibility to allow people to work in ways that may not be "typical", autistics are often able to thrive.

Obviously, not everyone will be able to thrive in employment, even after reviewing many of the suggestions I've included. However, for many of us, I believe these suggestions can improve our professional life.

Please feel free to use these materials for any purpose, provided you acknowledge the source (Joel Smith).

Note that some of these files are quite large. The PostScript versions of the slides may take over an hour to download with a dial-up connection.

Conference Paper

• makingemploymentfit.doc (MS Word 2003, 78 KB)
• makingemploymentfit.pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 214 KB)

This paper is the same paper that was included in the Autreat 2004 program book. It includes most of the information that was presented during my presentation.

PowerPoint Slides

• makingemploymentfit.ppt (PowerPoint 2003, 118 KB)
• makingemploymentfit.htm (HTML for online viewing, IE may be required)
• makingemploymentfit.pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 160 KB)

This set of PowerPoint slides was used during my presentation.

Thanks!

Thanks to codeman38, who produced the PDF versions of these documents.