The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing
adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work
world.
This second edition of The Autism Job Club
includes a new Foreword by Steve Silberman, author of the best-selling
NeuroTribes, along with an Afterword by the authors. The
Afterword covers the many employment initiatives for adults on the
autism spectrum launched just in the three years since the book was
originally published.
The book has its basis in the autism job club
that the authors have been part of in the San Francisco Bay Area, the
job-creation and job-placement efforts the club has undertaken, and
similar efforts throughout the United States.
The authors review the
high unemployment rates among adults with autism and other neuro-
diverse conditions more than two decades after the ADA. Bernick and
Holden also outline and explain six strategies that, taken together,
will reshape employment for adults with autism: the art of the autism
job coach; the autism advantage in technology employment; autism
employment and the internet economy; autism employment and the
practical/craft economy; autism and extra-governmental job networks;
autism and public service employment.
The Autism Job Club is a
vital resource for adults with autism, their families, and advocates
who are committed to neuro-diverse employment, not unemployment. But it
also speaks to a far broader audience interested in how to carve out a
place for themselves or others in an increasingly competitive job
world.