Saturday, July 9, 2011

Another promising company

This consulting company, called Specialisterne, uses the special gifts of people on the autism spectrum to do technological testing for research and development departments of large companies. It was founded by Thorkil Sonne, who has a young son with autism, to create future job opportunities and now employs about 40 people, with more consultants in the training pipeline.

Countries like Denmark are light-years ahead of the United States in their thinking about social policy. Read more about great idea that is business savvy enough to appeal in the US, too at

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/putting-the-gifts-of-the-autistic-to-work