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With Training, Most With Autism Land Jobs

An important new study found that young people (18-21 years old) with autism–even those with challenging behaviors–can be highly successful on the job if they receive intensive, autism-specific training.   The study showed that, of the students who got the extra job training, 87 percent found work in competitive employment situations after graduation compared to just 6 percent in the control group …

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Chatterbox

Through the Looking Glass (TLG), a nationally-recognized center for families with disabilities, is offering a new free program, called Chatterbox, for parents with learning difficulties or intellectual disabilities and their young children. TLG describes the program this way:  Chatterbox is a parent-child interactional therapeutic play/care group designed to give parents with intellectual disabilities or learning difficulties the tools to encourage language skills …

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