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Dichotomous thinking in autism
“Stai esagerando”, “sei troppo sensibile”, “prendi tutto come un attacco personale” sono frasi che molte persone autistiche (non tutte, ovviamente) sono abituate a sentirsi rivolgere. Perché a volte ci viene attribuito un "eccesso di sensibilità"? In questo giudizio...
Cognitive accessibility and autism
When we talk about accessibility, we usually think of adapting environments for people with physical mobility problems: putting ramps in accesses to homes, enabling elevators to go through different floors of buildings without using stairs, installing handrails at...
How to process the stimuli of a chaotic world
It is very common to hear that autistic people process information differently, but, what exactly do we mean by this? What does the term “processing” imply and what activities or actions are related to it? Actually, our whole life relates to our style or way of...
Gender, autistic women and job market
Before addressing the central theme of this article, we must think about gender. Surely many autistic people who read these lines will have asked themselves thousands of times: What exactly does it mean to be a woman? Does it have to do with performative...
Are autistic people unsociable or is it just a myth?
To successfully answer this question, you must first understand that autism is a spectrum; no two autistic people are the same, in the same way that we will not find two neurotypical people with the same characteristics. There are extremely chaotic and messy autistic...
Coaching
As we were mentioning in a previous article, in Specialisterne we see inclusion as a process based on reciprocity. A part of such reciprocity is expressed through the support and assessment offered to both parts compromised on that inclusion: on one side, the...
8th anniversary of Specialisterne in Spain
This coming June we celebrate the 8th anniversary of Specialisterne in Spain. After many months of preparations, we opened an office in Sant Cugat del Vallès, near Barcelona. The team is made up of Ramon Bernat as Social Investor and Facilitator, Francesc Sistach as...
First project in Portugal
The list of countries in which Specialisterne carries out projects continues to grow. This June we have started the first project for the inclusion of people with autism in Portugal. Critical Software, a leading IT company in Portugal, will hire a first group of...
Specialisterne at the United Nations: Commemorating World Autism Awareness Day
Today, April 8th, the United Nations, together with the Specialisterne Foundation, celebrated its event on the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day. In virtual format due to the pandemic, and broadcasted live on UN Web TV (where the video of the event can be seen),...
Autism at Work: success for the first project in Mexico
We start 2021 with good news: the successful completion of the first joint project of SAP and Specialisterne for the job placement of people with autism in Mexico City, as well as the hiring, derived from that project, of 3 people with that diagnosis in SAP from...
New prevalence data in autism
The United States CDC continues to publish studies and data on the prevalence of autism. And, as the level of diagnosis improves, and it covers well the cases with a less visible diagnosis, the data does not stop increasing. The most recent published data...
New project of labor inclusion in San Jose, Costa Rica!
After the success of the 2019 project where 6 people were inserted into the autism spectrum, Procter & Gamble (P&G) wants to expand its workforce in 2020. The important multinational consumer goods company once again collaborates with Specialisterne for...
Dichotomous thinking in autism
“Stai esagerando”, “sei troppo sensibile”, “prendi tutto come un attacco personale” sono frasi che molte persone autistiche (non tutte, ovviamente) sono abituate a sentirsi rivolgere. Perché a volte ci viene attribuito un "eccesso di sensibilità"? In questo giudizio...
Cognitive accessibility and autism
When we talk about accessibility, we usually think of adapting environments for people with physical mobility problems: putting ramps in accesses to homes, enabling elevators to go through different floors of buildings without using stairs, installing handrails at...
How to process the stimuli of a chaotic world
It is very common to hear that autistic people process information differently, but, what exactly do we mean by this? What does the term “processing” imply and what activities or actions are related to it? Actually, our whole life relates to our style or way of...
Gender, autistic women and job market
Before addressing the central theme of this article, we must think about gender. Surely many autistic people who read these lines will have asked themselves thousands of times: What exactly does it mean to be a woman? Does it have to do with performative...
Are autistic people unsociable or is it just a myth?
To successfully answer this question, you must first understand that autism is a spectrum; no two autistic people are the same, in the same way that we will not find two neurotypical people with the same characteristics. There are extremely chaotic and messy autistic...
Coaching
As we were mentioning in a previous article, in Specialisterne we see inclusion as a process based on reciprocity. A part of such reciprocity is expressed through the support and assessment offered to both parts compromised on that inclusion: on one side, the...
8th anniversary of Specialisterne in Spain
This coming June we celebrate the 8th anniversary of Specialisterne in Spain. After many months of preparations, we opened an office in Sant Cugat del Vallès, near Barcelona. The team is made up of Ramon Bernat as Social Investor and Facilitator, Francesc Sistach as...
First project in Portugal
The list of countries in which Specialisterne carries out projects continues to grow. This June we have started the first project for the inclusion of people with autism in Portugal. Critical Software, a leading IT company in Portugal, will hire a first group of...
Specialisterne at the United Nations: Commemorating World Autism Awareness Day
Today, April 8th, the United Nations, together with the Specialisterne Foundation, celebrated its event on the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day. In virtual format due to the pandemic, and broadcasted live on UN Web TV (where the video of the event can be seen),...
Autism at Work: success for the first project in Mexico
We start 2021 with good news: the successful completion of the first joint project of SAP and Specialisterne for the job placement of people with autism in Mexico City, as well as the hiring, derived from that project, of 3 people with that diagnosis in SAP from...
New prevalence data in autism
The United States CDC continues to publish studies and data on the prevalence of autism. And, as the level of diagnosis improves, and it covers well the cases with a less visible diagnosis, the data does not stop increasing. The most recent published data...
New project of labor inclusion in San Jose, Costa Rica!
After the success of the 2019 project where 6 people were inserted into the autism spectrum, Procter & Gamble (P&G) wants to expand its workforce in 2020. The important multinational consumer goods company once again collaborates with Specialisterne for...
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Dichotomous thinking in autism
“Stai esagerando”, “sei troppo sensibile”, “prendi tutto come un attacco personale” sono frasi che molte persone autistiche (non tutte, ovviamente) sono abituate a sentirsi rivolgere. Perché a volte ci viene attribuito un "eccesso di sensibilità"? In questo giudizio...
Cognitive accessibility and autism
When we talk about accessibility, we usually think of adapting environments for people with physical mobility problems: putting ramps in accesses to homes, enabling elevators to go through different floors of buildings without using stairs, installing handrails at...
How to process the stimuli of a chaotic world
It is very common to hear that autistic people process information differently, but, what exactly do we mean by this? What does the term “processing” imply and what activities or actions are related to it? Actually, our whole life relates to our style or way of...
Gender, autistic women and job market
Before addressing the central theme of this article, we must think about gender. Surely many autistic people who read these lines will have asked themselves thousands of times: What exactly does it mean to be a woman? Does it have to do with performative...
Are autistic people unsociable or is it just a myth?
To successfully answer this question, you must first understand that autism is a spectrum; no two autistic people are the same, in the same way that we will not find two neurotypical people with the same characteristics. There are extremely chaotic and messy autistic...
Coaching
As we were mentioning in a previous article, in Specialisterne we see inclusion as a process based on reciprocity. A part of such reciprocity is expressed through the support and assessment offered to both parts compromised on that inclusion: on one side, the...