Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms

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This post continues on the theme of yesterday’s post–Inclusion Films.

Danielle Bowman was mentioned in a number of posts last month, for example this one. Dani is a 17-year-old girl on the Autism Spectrum who has been working professionally since age 14, and has a personal goal to change the world’s perception of Autism. To that end, Dani has been involved in teaching animation as part of Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films program…

…During the summer of 2011, Dani spent three weeks of her summer vacation teaching animation at Joey Travolta’s summer camp programs for kids with autism. Due to her close working relationship with Toon Boom Animation, a major animation software provider, Toon Boom helped underwrite Dani’s travel expenses to travel to camps in Jacksonville, FL, Edgewood Cliffs, NJ, and Detroit, MI. At the camps, she taught animation to over 150 kids with autism, inspiring others on the spectrum to follow their dreams as well. This fall she is mentoring a couple [of] projects from her camp students…

Here is a short video of Dani teaching: Animation Section of Joey’s Video from The Oakland University Camp - YouTube

(source: Successful 17 Year Old Girl With Autism - CNN iReport)