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Today, April 2 Autism Awareness Day let’s unfix our gaze from persons with the disorder. Instead, let’s look in the mirror, and reflect on the systems we have made to serve and surround them. How have we allowed autism to turn into a profit generator?
In a flurry of legislative acts passed between 2010 and 2015, Massachusetts, where I live, became the 22nd state to mandate insurance coverage of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as a behavioral health benefit for autism. The state’s market for ABA services has been booming ever since.
Landmarks in Japan illuminated blue for World Autism Awareness Day
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Businesses in the UK have made great strides towards creating more diverse workforces. Teleport any 1970s employee into a modern-day workplace and, once they get over the fact that most of us are working from home, they’d find it remarkable that people of all races, sexual orientations, gender identities, and religious beliefs work in harmony.
There is a long way to go, but progress is being made. However, there is still one major stigma remaining: autistic people in the workplace.
As April 2nd is the UN-backed Autism Awareness Day, let’s consider the recent, damning ONS figures which reveal that just 22 per cent of the UK’s 700,000 autistic adults are in any kind of employment. These statistics aren’t down to a lack of ambition, with the report finding that 61 per cent are desperate to work.