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Guest editorial Hilary Fertig, Nicola Martin and Mitzi Waltz his important special edition of Advances in Autism focusses on employment. It is Hilary Fertig is based at Employment Autism, designed specifically to be of practical use to autistic and non-autistic readers alike BARNET, UK. when considering what good employment practice might look like and how this may Nicola Martin is based at be achieved. the Department of What I find particularly striking about this volume is the commonality between authors in their Education, London South identification of barriers to employment, enablers to circumvent these barriers and the Bank University, London, benefits of employment both to autistic individuals and to society. Road blocks identified in UK. Mitzi Waltz is based at the quest to find employment include lack of decent work experience on the one hand and the Faculty of Science, Athena Institute, Vrije recruitment and selection processes, which do not play to the strengths of autistic potential Universiteit Amsterdam, employees, on the other. Once in work, progress can be hampered by a range of Amsterdam, The environmental factors, such as sensory overload and stressful levels of ambiguity. These Netherlands. could be effectively altered, often at low or no cost. Co-workers and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advances in Autism Emerald Publishing

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Fertig, Hilary; Martin, Nicola; Waltz, Mitzi
Advances in Autism , Volume 7 (1): 2 – May 12, 2021
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Hilary Fertig, Nicola Martin and Mitzi Waltz his important special edition of Advances in Autism focusses on employment. It is Hilary Fertig is based at Employment Autism, designed specifically to be of practical use to autistic and non-autistic readers alike BARNET, UK. when considering what good employment practice might look like and how this may Nicola Martin is based at be achieved. the Department of What I find particularly striking about this volume is the commonality between authors in their Education, London South identification of barriers to employment, enablers to circumvent these barriers and the Bank University, London, benefits of employment both to autistic individuals and to society. Road blocks identified in UK. Mitzi Waltz is based at the quest to find employment include lack of decent work experience on the one hand and the Faculty of Science, Athena Institute, Vrije recruitment and selection processes, which do not play to the strengths of autistic potential Universiteit Amsterdam, employees, on the other. Once in work, progress can be hampered by a range of Amsterdam, The environmental factors, such as sensory overload and stressful levels of ambiguity. These Netherlands. could be effectively altered, often at low or no cost. Co-workers and

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Published: May 12, 2021

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