Dan Swearingen | November 9, 2009
Pam Erwin gave us a great pointer to Wells Fargo’s Hands on Banking program which provides instructional resources and online classes in financial skills.
Courses are available in English and Spanish and four grades: Kids, Teens, Young Adults, and Adults. We are going to be drawing on these lessons and the great instructor guides (available as [...]
Dan Swearingen | September 23, 2009
For many people on the ASD spectrum entering adulthood, finding appropriate gainful employment is a challenge.
This is unfortunate because people with ASD have skills that can be profitable for an employer. Our experience in Autistry Studios has been that there is an astounding range in skills and interests in the people we work with so [...]
Dan Swearingen | September 12, 2009
I’m beat! The presentation and the Resource Fair went very well. I’ll post more about the fair and our presentation later but we had some requests for a copy of the slides we used.
Here it is in PDF (Acrobat Reader): Preparing our Teens to Work
Dan Swearingen | September 11, 2009
Janet and I are presenting a mini workshop “Preparing our Teens to Work” this weekend at the CONNECTING PEOPLE TO RESOURCES resource fair tomorrow at Dominican University in San Rafael.
Besides the mini workshop we will be manning a table displaying some student projects and information about Autistry Studios. Several Autistry Studios parents and students have [...]
