Microsoft's Inclusive Hiring
National Autism Indicators
A Teaching Exceptional Children
Fast Company Article on Microsoft's program for Hiring people with Autism
Transition Services for Youth with ASD
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to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more
What is our Microsoft mission
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envision a future where people on the Autism spectrum are valued as contributing members of our communities who have roles to play and dreams to pursue.
What is the mission of the Autism Institute's Life Outcome Research Program?
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the main idea for developing effective transition plans for High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
What are the five steps for developing effective transition plans?
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Microsoft wants these positions filled who are Autistic
What is Coders?
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IDEA requires these types of services to be included in all Individualized Education Program (IEP) plans for student with a disability
What are transition services?
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Being inclusive is not something we simply do, but rather, it stands for who we are
What is the culture we are building at Microsoft
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access to needed supports and services drops off dramatically after high school with too many having no help at all
What is a service cliff?
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group of people experience greater social communication difficulties than what would be expected for other students their age
What is student with ASD?
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Someone in a wheelchair requesting to have a ramp installed at the workplace. A ramp is known as...
What is an accommodation for employment?
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Several studies have indicated that people with ASD are more likely to lose their employment for these types of reasons rather than their inability to perform work tasks
What are behavioral and social inappropriate reasons?
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The diversity of our workforce and inclusion of talented people from different backgrounds is the fuel that keeps the engines of innovation and growth running.
What is essential to our long-term success of Microsoft?
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a period filled with changes and increased demands for youth to function on their own and advocate for their own needs
What is emerging adulthood
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Educators developing effective plans for the range of outcomes expected for students with ASD through individualized and carefully tailored programming
What is required for students to make maximum gains?
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Microsoft had brought Adickman and 16 others to join the third cohort in a year-old program crafted especially for these appplicants.
What are applicants who are autistic?
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What are your thoughts on how to better link high school students with ASD with post secondary settings?
Discussion question
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In order to build _______ we need to have a diverse and inclusive workforce across all abilities.
What is the best products for everyone?
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a plan that supports postsecondary education, employment and independent living skills when appropriate enforced by the federal special education law for every student who has an Individualized Education Program (IEP)
What is a transition plan?
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 2006) requires schools to develop transition plans for students with disabilities, beginning at age 16, if not before. A coordinated set of activities that help students move from school into postschool activities.
What is defined as "transition planning."
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Doing away with the typical interview approach, instead inviting candidates to hang out on campus for two weeks and work on projects while being observed and causally meeting managers who might be interest in hiring them
What is Microsoft interview approach?
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A growing body of literature is used for addressing these types of techniques to support the vocational skills and behaviors of students with disabilities including students with ASD.
What are modeling and behavior-shaping techniques?
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these people have an untapped pool of talent with skills aligned to the work we are doing every day at Microsoft
What is autistic people?
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Discuss some ideas that have been mentioned in the reading or some ideas of your own to help improve the Transition Process for students with ASD.
What is some ideas of how to improve students with ASD with Transitioning into Young Adulthood?
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Having no link between postsecondary goals and measurable IEP goals
What is a common error in transition IEP writing?
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Creating a situation that is better suited to autistic people's styles of communicating and thinking
What is Microsoft's goal to spark a broader movement?
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Discussion Question: Discuss your thoughts on Audio Coaching where an employee with disabilities would wear an earpiece on the on-the-job to be provided with feedback about their performance
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