Innovative School Provides Model For Helping People With Autism Successfully Enter Workforce
Only 27 percent of adults on the autism spectrum are working full or part-time, according to a 2016 employment survey from the Autism Society of California. This school is looking to change that.
Capital Public Radio:
This Unique Sacramento School Wants To Get More Autistic Adults Into Jobs
With thousands of autistic children reaching adulthood each year and few programs designed to prepare them for the next step, the school offers a new model for driving this historically underemployed group into the workforce. (Caiola, 6/13)
In other news —
The California Health Report:
Asylum Ruling Could Spark Deportations And Have 'Chilling Effect' On California Women
Immigrant women in California who are pursuing asylum after fleeing domestic violence in their homelands could face deportation in the wake of a ruling Monday by the Trump administration. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered immigration judges June 11 to stop granting asylum to the majority of people seeking the protection on grounds that they suffered domestic or gang violence in their home countries. The ruling could affect tens of thousands of domestic violence victims—mostly women—some of whom are detained in California while they await the outcome of their cases, advocates said. (Boyd-Barrett, 6/13)
Los Angeles Times:
What Causes ‘Chemobrain’? It’s Time For Neuroscientists To Get Serious About Finding Out, Experts Say
At some point in their treatment for cancer, somewhere between 17% and 75% of patients with malignancies that don’t affect the central nervous system report the sensation that a mental fog has set in. For months or years after their hair has grown back, the exhaustion has lifted and the medical appointments taper off, the “new normal” for these patients includes problems with concentration, word-finding, short-term memory and multitasking. (Healy, 6/13)