Helping Adults with Asperger's Syndrome Get & Stay Hired(1st Edition) Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the Autism Spectrum by BarbaraBissonnette Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-84905-754-7, ISBN: 1-84905-754-0
"Employment expert Barbara Bissonnette provides strategies that professionals and parents need to guide individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to manageable jobs, and keep them employed. Career counselors and coaches, vocational rehabilitation specialists, other professionals, and parents are often unsure of how to assist people with Asperger's Syndrome. Traditional career assessments and protocols do not match ..."
"The workplace can be a difficult environment for people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and this often impedes their ability to make use of particular skills and sustain meaningful and fulfilling employment. This is the definitive guide to surviving and thriving in the workplace for people with AS. It includes everything from realistic strategies for meeting employer expectations, to how to get along with your colleagues and work as part ..."
"The ability to stop certain thoughts or activities is another aspect of executive
function, known as inhibition. My clients who have difficulty with inhibition will surf
the internet for extended periods of time, instead of attending to important
projects. They stray from a primary task in order to follow interesting, yet irrelevant
, tangents. Some impulsively act on a thought without considering the
consequences (Cooper-Kahn and D ..."
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"Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the
Autism Spectrum Barbara Bissonnette ... By the 1800s the word “coach” was
used as slang at Oxford University to refer to a tutor who “carried” students
through their exams (De Haan 2006). Thomas Leonard is widely credited with
developing the personal coaching profession in the late 1980s. A financial
planner by trade, Leonard noticed that his clients often wa ..."