Students With Autism Learn How To Succeed
People with autism often have a hard time finding and keeping jobs, so more schools are creating programs to help students with autism get prepared for the workplace. One of those programs helped change the life of Kevin Sargeant.
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Kevin, now 18, says his autism left him unable to handle the social interactions at school.
“I’d always have my head in my jacket and my hood up, and I wouldn’t want to talk to anybody just because I didn't know what they were going to do,” he says. “I’d always play with my Legos and, you know, I was rude all the time, and I had fits of anger and stuff like that — just because I didn’t understand people.”
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Six years later, Kevin is a lot more social. He’s a good student. And he's working — as an intern in the IT department at the Parks & People Foundation. Kevin says computers are a good fit for him.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.