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Autistic people often have command over exceptional analytical thinking, logic, attention to detail, high endurance and are honest. The Zurich-based IT company Asperger Informatik AG makes use of these ideal qualities and offers people with Asperger’s opportunies in the labor market.
Asperger Informatik AG offers various IT services. As the name suggests, this is not an ordinary company, because it employs primarily people with Asperger’s syndrome. From this group they see a huge potential: The company creates jobs that meet the needs of autistic people’s, so they can use their talents and skills productively and ultimately also achieve economic independence. The IT company demonstrates the potential that autistic people have, and shows that it can also be profitable for the economy, to utilise and promote this potential.
Unique conditions in the information age
Asperger-autistic people possess extraordinary talents. In the information age, the special abilities of Asperger’s are often ideal for computer science and IT related professions. Not only are people with Asperger’s often especially gifted, they usually also have extraordinary analytical skill, readiness of mind, very attentive to fine details, extreme concentration and ability to focus as well as tenacity and stamina.
Read in Full: http://www.myhandicap.com/asperger-informatik-int.html
Professionelles Webdesign und Software Testing in Zurich
http://www.asperger-informatik.ch/
First Published Friday February 25, 2011
Huh. Here’s an interesting one. A Chicago-based non-profit startup called Aspiritech (that’s A”Spirit”ech as far as the logo is concerned) has announced that it will be exclusively hiring software testers with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Here’s a quote from the company,
The proof of concept came from Danish company and recent research from Harvard Business School and others showed that the strengths of people with Aspergers and high-functioning autism actually make them superior at software testing. They’re ability to focus, good memory, their high intelligence, their strong technical skills, their ability to detect details and also to stay focused over lengthy periods, really makes them ideal for software testing work. People with Aspergers can become ideal software testers.
Read in Full:
http://www.gearlog.com/2011/02/startup_announces_plans_to_exc.php
