# Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245 "2011-05-10T07:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 309
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/309 "2013-04-25T17:58:19Z")
Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market t An [earlier post](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/141) focused on clothing designed to minimise irritation. One Sydney-Australia based small business focused on this area is _Calming Clothing for kids_, owned by Karen McMullan. The clothes look just like any other typical kids’ clothing, but they are more–being specially designed to provide deep pressure input across the day. As I have mentioned before, deep pressure is known as a universal organiser-meaning that it can lift you up when your arousal levels are low and bring you down when you are high. McMullan’s journey began when she and her sister, Gayl O’Grady (a dog behavioural trainer) decided to design a dog coat (the Ruf Ruf Comfort Coat) to relieve anxiety in dogs… > [@](#): > > …several years ago I [Gayl O’Grady] was working with dogs that lived with Autistic Children. Parents kept asking if we could design something like Ruf Ruf Comfort Coats for Children suffering from Sensory Processing Disorders such as Autism. So again my sister and I came up with Calming Clothing for Kids. Endorsed by Occupation Therapists in Sydney… Some photos of _Calming Clothing for kids_ products being displayed can be viewed via the following links: > **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=exp.136686963142519.unitary&type=1)** > **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.229460607198487.1073741825.136683829809499&type=1)** (sources: [http://www.calmingclothingforkids.com/journey.html](http://www.calmingclothingforkids.com/journey.html); [http://www.greenhounds.com.au/News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=32](http://www.greenhounds.com.au/News/NewsArticle.aspx?id=32)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._