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START Building Your Future Project

START Building Your Future Project. Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Adults with ASD. Adults with ASD. Employment, Higher Education, Community Involvement, Independent Living, Leisure and Quality of Life. Intent of this Presentation.

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START Building Your Future Project

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  1. START Building Your Future Project Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Adults with ASD

  2. Adults with ASD Employment, Higher Education, Community Involvement, Independent Living, Leisure and Quality of Life

  3. Intent of this Presentation This presentation is designed to assist adult service providers who are supporting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder navigate the complexities of this disability.

  4. Agenda • Numbers of Adults with ASD • What is ASD? • Interference of High Interest Areas • Literal Interpretation of Information • Misunderstanding of Social Situations • Lack of Social Reciprocity – Inflated Ego • Hypersensitivity to the Environment • Difficulty Staying Employed • Hygiene Issues • Responding to Others Needs • Truth at all Costs

  5. WWW.AFAA-US.ORG Advancing Futures for Adults with ASD Autism Speaks

  6. What Does This Crisis Look Like In Michigan? Let’s Re-Examine the Numbers of Students with ASD Currently Eligible for Services in the State of Michigan

  7. What Does This Crisis Feel Like for Parents and Families?

  8. How About an Example • Engineering Degree from Michigan Institute of Technology • Masters in Engineering from U of M • Fired from GM and Ford • Fired from Several of the Suppliers (Consulting Firms to the Big 3) • What Is He Doing Now?

  9. The Dignity of Risk – Robert Perske The world in which we live is not always safe, secure and predictable. Every day that we wake up and live in the hours of that day, there is a possibility of being thrown up against a situation where we may have to risk everything, even our lives. This is the way the real world is. We must work to develop every human resource within us in order to prepare for these days. To deny any person their fair share of risk experience is to further cripple them for healthy living.

  10. What Does This Mean To Us • Public Transportation – Brian • Overnight/Sports Teams – Dan • Washington D.C. Trip - Ryan

  11. This Means… • Never again will a Student with ASD be in such a protected environment. If mistakes are made, those mistakes can generally be fixed. • With appropriate supports, Students with ASD must be given the same opportunities as their same aged peers. • The Dignity of Risk needs to be a part of every decision educational teams are making for Students with ASD.

  12. What Else Does This Mean? • Where did the Students’ with ASD peers learn all the independent skills they have? • How did they learn to independently ride the school bus? • How did a typically developing student learn to be away from their family? • Where do typically developing peers understand the social expectations?

  13. So…How are the Service Agencies Supporting Adults with ASD Going to Manage this Explosion… By Looking At Autism Spectrum Disorder Differently

  14. Looking at ASD Differently • Respect for what has happened in the past… • While implementing what must happen in the future!

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