Those on the spectrum aren’t good at following vague, open-ended instructions. Step # 1 Do not be vague, be specific with them So, how am I going to allocate it? I’m going to allocate it to social, emotional, or allocate it to engineering, art, or math? And what tends to happen in autism, as it gets more into the thinking, your brain can be more thinking or frankly, more social, emotional. Let’s look at the brain from an engineering standpoint, you’ve got a certain amount of processor space in that brain. The more social people don’t get stuff done.

In the world, we need the different kinds of minds. Working with differently-abled individuals begins with this step. There are some of us who have extra circuits that give us different ways of thinking. A way to understand how complex the brain is, is to consider that the same genes that give us our brains are also responsible for autism and schizophrenia. The way our brain works is affected by a number of factors. Grandin emphasized that employers and companies need to understand how different minds work. Realizing How Different Minds Can Work Togetherĭr. And the first step is realizing that these different kinds of thinking exist. An extreme object visualizer and an extreme mathematician. But the thing is the autistic person to be more extreme. And you also have some of these different kinds of thinking with the people who are not autistic either. And then you get the words, a thinker who is completely verbal. You get the more mathematical, visual, spatial- thinks more in graphs and patterns. You get the object visualizer like me who thinks in photo-realistic pictures. So, it’s a very wide range, and you actually get three kinds of specialized thoughts of autism. But also about 20% of the people I work with, engineers up and about at Silicon Valley, half of the programmers are undiagnosed autism. How can the manager working with those that have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) help them excel and be productive? Most organizational cultures rely so heavily on interpersonal and communication skills that it can be difficult for someone with autism to succeed without support once they are hired. Integrate Autism Employment Advisors estimates that 85 percent of college-educated adults with autism are unemployed. Special abilities include photographic visualizers, mathematical visualizers, and highly verbal spectrums. Temple Grandin noted that 20% of the people she met within Silicon Valley, from engineers to programmers, have undiagnosed autism. Problem: How can a manager working with those that have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) help them excel and be productive?ĭr.

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