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Special Needs Blog Week in Review – May 20 – 26, 2012

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Each week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a quick summary of all of the blogs that appeared here in the past seven days. This makes it easier for you to find the blogs you missed and the ones that you didn’t have time to read when they first went up. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on May 21, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, MD that was released on May 14, 2012. The episode is called “Should We Diagnose Kids Pre-Psychotic?” Dr. Gupta discusses the changes … Continue reading →

One in Three Young Adults With Autism are Unemployed

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A recent study shows that one out of every three young adults who have autism lack employment, and have no college or technical education. Improvements need to be made in the systems that support young adults that have autism, in order to address this issue. Ideally, parents want their children to grow up to be self-sufficient members of society. A recent study found that, in some ways, this isn’t what is happening with many young adults who have autism. Researchers found that one in three young adults who have an autism spectrum disorder is unemployed, and that they had no … Continue reading →