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Autism At Work Across The Career Span: A Scoping Review, Kate Noel Warnock Apr 2024

Autism At Work Across The Career Span: A Scoping Review, Kate Noel Warnock

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This scoping review takes a career-span approach to the experiences of autistic people at work. Using Super’s (1994) life-span, life-space theory as a framework, I divided the literature into five career phases: Growth, Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, and Disengagement. In each phase, I reviewed the challenges and facilitators that autistic people face, highlighting themes that have strong support in the literature, and areas that need further examination in future research. Additionally, I argue that Super’s career framework is not the most parsimonious way to describe the career trajectories of autistic individuals and propose modifications to the framework to better represent their …


Life After An Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: A Comparison Of Stress And Coping Profiles Of African American And Caucasian Caregivers, Takeshia Williams Jul 2016

Life After An Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: A Comparison Of Stress And Coping Profiles Of African American And Caucasian Caregivers, Takeshia Williams

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Though the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder continues to rise, limited research to date has studied the impact of culture on stress and coping for families after they are diagnosed. This study explored the relationship between caregiver’s ethnic culture and caregiver reports of stress and coping behaviors when caring for a child with autism. Specifically, this study used discriminate function analysis to contrast the stress and coping profiles of Caucasian caregivers to African American caregivers that are more acculturated with the majority culture and African American caregivers that ascribe to more traditional values. A sample of 103 participants was recruited, …