Some parents are becoming entrepreneurs to create jobs for their children with autism because they say businesses aren’t hiring them.
Published Saturday, May 18, 2024 10:00PM EDTShe launched the gift-boxing business "“Ninety per cent of people with autism are unemployed or underemployed,” Shannon Hill told CTV News. “That's an epidemic of people who not employed or not able to be supported in a workplace.”
One in 66 children are diagnosed with an autism and one of the biggest worries for parents is what their kids will do for work when they grow up. “This is something he can do and … he can say, ‘I can have a job,’” she said. Colby is being shadowed right now but the hope is that he’ll be able to mail the products himself., a furniture-assembly company in Edmonton created with the same idea in mind. The business enlists Brad Fremmerlid, 30, to quickly build IKEA furniture or BBQ appliances, his father said.
Over the past five years, he estimates his son has made about $40,000 from his projects. Part of this money is used to pay some of the travel expenses of Brad’s support worker who drives him to each job.suggest self-employment might be one of the few ways to tackle the dismal unemployment rate among developmentally-delayed young adults., started by Steven Bier from New Jersey. He felt his son Sam was being underutilized, simply pushing around empty shopping carts at his old job.
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