Preparing individuals with autism for the workforce

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- April is Autism Acceptance Month, which encourages knowing and enactment for those with the condition.

According to non-profit Autism Speaks, nationalist information shows a bulk of adults connected the autism spectrum upset are either unemployed oregon underemployed.

The ARC of Fresno and Madera counties works with adults with developmental disabilities, specified arsenic autism, larn however to beryllium palmy members of the assemblage and workforce.

"We enactment with individuals -- who are susceptible of getting successful the workforce, surviving independently -- to benignant of instrumentality attraction of themselves," Travis Cardwell said. "We assistance them fortify those skills to get employment to beryllium capable to unrecorded independently."

Cardwell is the manager of the Pathfinders to Employment programme astatine The ARC. The Pathfinders programme helps participants hole for the workforce.

"A batch of radical are frightened to enactment with our individuals due to the fact that they don't cognize however to grip it, due to the fact that they spot immoderate of the much higher-end oregon lower-functioning individuals, truthful to speak, who whitethorn person behaviors oregon outbursts and things similar that and they don't privation that successful their workplace," said Cardwell. "So it wholly turns them disconnected to the full idea. Those outbursts, astir of the time, are acold and fewer between."

Program participants person the accidental to spell done mock interviews, resume writing, internships oregon contracted employment wrong the assemblage -- specified arsenic astatine the Fresno Yosemite International Airport, Fresno's Air National Guard oregon SaveMart Center.

According to Cardwell, the partnerships with section companies play a immense relation successful enriching their clients' lives.

"Now they get to spell out, they get to acquisition things," helium said. "They get to conscionable beryllium a portion of their community."

For accusation astir the ARC's Pathfinders to Employment programme oregon its different services, sojourn arcfresno.org.

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