NEWS, EVENTS & MEDIA
Dichotomous thinking in autism
“You are exaggerating”, “you are too sensitive”, “you take everything as a personal attack” are phrases that some autistic people (not all, of course) are used to hearing. Why are we sometimes attributed an "excess of sensitivity"? Several factors would...
Cognitive accessibility and autism
When we talk about accessibility, we usually think of adapting environments for people with physical mobility problems: putting ramps in accesses to homes, enabling elevators to go through different floors of buildings without using stairs, installing handrails at...
How to process the stimuli of a chaotic world
It is very common to hear that autistic people process information differently, but, what exactly do we mean by this? What does the term “processing” imply and what activities or actions are related to it? Actually, our whole life relates to our style or way of...
Gender, autistic women and job market
Before addressing the central theme of this article, we must think about gender. Surely many autistic people who read these lines will have asked themselves thousands of times: What exactly does it mean to be a woman? Does it have to do with performative...
Are autistic people unsociable or is it just a myth?
To successfully answer this question, you must first understand that autism is a spectrum; no two autistic people are the same, in the same way that we will not find two neurotypical people with the same characteristics. There are extremely chaotic and messy autistic...
Coaching
As we were mentioning in a previous article, in Specialisterne we see inclusion as a process based on reciprocity. A part of such reciprocity is expressed through the support and assessment offered to both parts compromised on that inclusion: on one side, the...
Specialisterne participates in Saló de l’Ocupació
The organization explains the Casa Batlló project during the days of the Saló de l’Ocupació. Specialisterne together with Casa Batlló inaugurated the Saló de l’Ocupació and the Fira Sí i Millor organized by the FECETC, visiting the museum institution on Monday,...
Autism at Work: new project in Colombia
New project for the labor inclusion of people with autism in Bogotá (Colombia) Specialisterne Spain, together with SAP, a multinational company focused on the manufacture of business software to manage commercial operations and customer relationships, have...
One hundred people working at Specialisterne Spain
We ended the month of June celebrating the 8th anniversary of Specialisterne in Spain, and this July we ended up celebrating that we are already more than 100 people working in Spain. We have teams of people with autism working in banks, insurance companies, IT...