Back-to-School Time
First, it’s back-to-school time for most students in the United States! Podcast host, Annette Hines reflects at the beginning of the episode on the busy preparation in her household for her two daughters that started a few weeks before the first day of school. Both her daughter Elizabeth with mitochondrial disease and her younger daughter, Caroline, needed separate, yet lengthy preparations that required extensive lists to organize it all. Grab our back-to-school checklist here.
Second, many families whose emerging students have now left school and are seeking job opportunities will be excited to hear about the advancements our recent Parenting Impossible episode guest, Director of avail Support Lisa Marie Clinton has made with assistive technologies through her avail® solution and creating a neurodiverse workplace. Employment is one of Hines’ favorite topics and is so relevant to today’s workforce where we still see hesitancy on the part of employers to hire neurodiverse or disabled individuals. Despite the struggle of many companies to fill empty positions, disabled people are still cut off from the workforce due to challenges like needing more hands-on or assistive support to perform their jobs. In 2021, 85% of the 5.6 million adults with autism in the U.S. were unemployed or underemployed. In a time when employers are scrambling to fill empty job posts, imagine having a tool that would enable the ease of hiring and training neurodiverse individuals with a 90% retention rate to fill those positions! That performance metric is exactly the results that the avail® solution is achieving.
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