{"id":351,"date":"2015-05-28T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=351"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:58:11","slug":"autism-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/05\/28\/autism-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism in the Workplace..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recent article in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/apr\/19\/the-innovators-matching-autistic-people-with-jobs-needing-special-skills\" target=\"_blank\"> The Guardian <\/a>highlights the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/specialisterne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Specialisterne<\/a> (Danish for the Specialists) \u2013 a charitable organisation which has now spread to 13 countries, including Britain, where for the last two years it has placed people on the spectrum in positions in the BBC, the NHS and Lockheed Martin in Glasgow among others.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Bath student or graduate who has autism and would like to discuss your disability and how to present it to employers, please book an appointment with one of our careers advisers. You may also find\u00a0our blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/02\/12\/disclosure-do-you-tell-an-employer-about-your-disability\/\" target=\"_blank\">disclosure<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/02\/11\/help-advice-for-disabled-students-and-graduates\/\" target=\"_blank\">advice<\/a> for disabled students of interest. Remember we are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/one-to-one\/index.html#dropin\" target=\"_blank\">open<\/a> throughout the summer holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent article in The Guardian highlights the work of Specialisterne (Danish for the Specialists) \u2013 a charitable organisation which has now spread to 13 countries, including Britain, where for the last two years it has placed people on the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[83,48,55,145],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-autism","tag-disability","tag-diversity","tag-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}