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Lifestyle > Self-Care
Sensory Self-Care Tools for Adults with Autism
Weighted blankets, noise-canceling headphones, and fidget tools help autistic adults regulate emotions and manage sensory overload.
News > Advocacy
Minnesota Just Disenrolled 61% of Its Medicaid Disability Providers. Other States Are Running the Same Audit. Here's What Families Need to Do Now.
...to find that their child's ABA therapist, adult day program, or in-home caregiver could no longer bill Medicaid. About 2,491 providers had incomplete...Barry's daughter was receiving full-time ABA therapy at Superior Steps, an autism treatment facility in Rochester. "We decided to enroll her full-time in ABA...
Lifestyle > Relationships
Teaching Theory of Mind to Children with Autism
...happen, wondered what's going on, and maybe felt the ache of wanting to help without knowing where to begin. These aren't signs of a child who doesn't care. They're signs that theory of mind, the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts, feelings, and knowledge, is developing differently....
Lifestyle > Recreation
Preventing Summer Regression in Children with Autism
...skills that happens when children with autism lose the structured practice and therapeutic...particularly in communication, self-care, and academic skills. But regression...invented. It's a documented phenomenon in autism research. Studies show that many autistic...A 2007 study published in Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities...
Career > Skills Training
Understanding Workplace Culture and Unwritten Rules
...happened, or received feedback that left you more confused than guided, you're not alone. For many neurodivergent employees, particularly those with autism or ADHD, the workplace runs on a second language of implicit norms, indirect cues, and unspoken hierarchies. What some colleagues seem to absorb naturally...
Career > Skills Training
Personal Hygiene and Professional Appearance in the Workplace
...You're expected to know them. For people with sensory processing disorder, autism, or executive function challenges, that gap creates real problems. What...accommodation. Conditions that qualify include sensory processing disorder, autism spectrum disorder, dermatitis, hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), gastrointestinal...
Career > Skills Training
Workplace Communication Training: Email Etiquette and Professional Writing
...tone," "keep it concise") is almost useless on its own. These instructions assume you already know the unwritten framework and are simply applying it. Autism can make tone inference genuinely difficult. You know exactly what you mean, but translating that into how the recipient will interpret it requires...
Career > Skills Training
Customer Service Skills for Employment: Training and Accommodations
...all environments that require interacting with customers through phone calls, face-to-face conversations, or written communication. For people with autism, social anxiety, sensory processing differences, or communication disabilities, those requirements can feel like a closed door. But they aren't. Customer...
Career > Interviewing
Cultural Fit Questions and Neurodivergence: Addressing Social Communication Concerns
...a time you resolved a conflict with a teammate." These questions are cultural fit probes, and for neurodivergent candidates, especially those with autism or social communication differences, they can feel like a trap. The subtext reads as: can you perform neurotypical social behavior convincingly enough...
Career > Interviewing
Panel Interviews and Disability: Managing Multiple Interviewers
...in a room where the stimulation level just tripled. For job seekers with autism, social anxiety, or sensory processing differences, this format amplifies...contact. When you request accommodations, name what you're managing. "I have autism and find it difficult to track multiple speakers in group settings. I'd...
Career > Interviewing
Sensory-Friendly Interview Environments: Requesting Quiet Spaces and Lighting Adjustments
...special treatment. They're modifications that let you focus on answering questions about your qualifications. If you have sensory processing disorder, autism, ADHD, or another condition that makes standard interview environments harder to navigate, you're legally entitled to request reasonable accommodations...
Career > Interviewing
Requesting Extra Time for Interview Responses: Processing Speed Accommodations
...starts working. You know the answer is in there. But the room goes quiet, and you feel the pause stretching in real time. For candidates with ADHD, autism, or anxiety, this is one of the most frustrating moments of an interview: not because you don't know the material, but because your processing speed...