# 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:** 49
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/49 "2011-08-03T06:39:35Z")
**Specialisterne (Danish for ‘Specialists’) seeks to harness strengths that many people with Autism Spectrum Disorders possess - good attention to fine details, precision, and high tolerance for repetitive tasks. Their consultants bring the joy of work into areas where it is often missing.🙂 As listed in Temple Grandin’s book, _The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger’s_, one of the things that Specialisterne does not tolerate is anger where equipment is damaged or other people are hit. In return, the consultants are provided with a work environment where sensory distractions are minimized and they do not have to deal with difficult bosses and complex social situations.** (source: _The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger’s_ by Temple Grandin) The issues mentioned above may be related - via something called meltdowns which can happen in Autistic people. In the previous post, _The Incredible 5-Point Scale_ was mentioned. Developed by Buron and Curtis, this is a simple 5-point scale that can help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events. Their 2004 book on the subject, shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the students active participation, develop a scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternative, positive behaviors at each level of the scale… > [@](#): > > …Individuals with [Autism Spectrum Disorders] often develop significant adult dependencies. This is seen not only in academic work, but also in their attempts to understand and control emotions and interpersonal actions. Teaching a person with [an Autism Spectrum Disorder] to identify his internal states, how those states typically make him feel, and what to do to about it should be viewed as one of the most important skills we teach… _The Incredible 5-Point Scale_ is described more fully (with the use of various illustrations) via the following link: [http://www.5pointscale.com/other\_projects\_article\_5-point\_scale.htm](http://www.5pointscale.com/other_projects_article_5-point_scale.htm) (source: [http://www.aapcpublishing.net/documents/books/9023.pdf](http://www.aapcpublishing.net/documents/books/9023.pdf)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._