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April 2 was the World Awareness Day on Autism and, on April 5, the annual event commemorating this date was celebrated at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In this edition, the theme was “Empowering Women and Girls with Autism”, trying to highlight the challenges faced by women and girls with autism, often subject […]

Various consultants of Specialisterne have begun the test of six new games created in Spain in collaboration with Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain as part of the program PlayStation® Talents. As part of this agreement, powered by Animatoon Studio and PlayStation ® Spain, the first team of consultants has been trained in the demanding quality control […]

The prestigious magazine Wired recently published an article which discusses the potential of people with ASD in the field of cybersecurity. The article mentions Alan Turing, who deciphered the Nazi army code system in World War II and whose profile could place him in the autism spectrum. The author, Kevin Pelphrey, cites this as an […]

Working Knowledge, a Harvard Business School publication, just released an article called ‘Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities‘. It states that every day, more companies are accepting neurodiversity and hiring people with ASD. The article refers to a recently published case study, SAP SE: Autism at Work, that explains SAP’s diversity program in […]

Commemorating April the 2nd – Autism Awareness Day (2016) – the Brazilian office of Specialisterne, located in São Paulo, was officially inaugurated during a special event. This is the first office in Latin America. The project is backed and supported by Specialisterne Spain. It aims to be the starting point of an expansion across Brazil, […]

Commemorating April, 2, the Word Autism Awareness Day, the UN promoted an event called “Autism and the 2030 Agenda: Inclusion and Neurodiversity”, in which Specialisterne took part. In the event several objectives that aim for the improvement of people with ASD life conditions, were discussed. The objectives are part of the SDGs, the Sustainable Development […]

Three years have gone by since the program Autism at Work evolved, which was an initiative by the software multinational company SAP in collaboration with Specialisterne. What happened? More than 100 people with ASD are employed by SAP worldwide. And numbers will increase, as SAP, currently with 77.000 employees, intends to have 1% of its […]

Specialisterne joined forces with HP and the Human Resources Department of the Australian Government, in a program developed to provide training and employment for adults with ASD in software testing. In the initial phase, HP has already hired 11 people, and intends to hire many more. In the attached video (among others) we can see […]

The NGO section of the Department of Public Information (DPI) in the UN decided on November the 20th, 2015, to approve their association with the Specialisterne Foundation, which encompasses the concept and trademark of Specialisterne, and replicating them worldwide. The DPI serves as a connection between the UN and approximately 1.600 NGOs and other civil […]

Consultants and students of Specialisterne Spain have collaborated in a project conducted by the company Agbar, helping to develop an app called iBeach, setting a new example of how people with ASD can be especially suitable professionals for certain types of job. iBeach is an app made for iOS and Android by Agbar, that provides […]