# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/83 "2011-12-03T22:52:03Z")
**Specialisterne (‘the Specialists’ in Danish) 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 today.🙂 Similarly _Strokes of Genius_ seeks to harness the artistic abilities of those with Autism.** (sources: [Human Resource Executive Online - Story](http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/printstory.jsp?storyId=533322146); [Strokes of Geniusea](http://www.rcmautismnotebook.com/StrokesofGeniusea.html)) Another one of Strokes of Genius’ contributing artists is Seth Chwast. From a young age, his mother (Debra) threw herself into connecting her son with the wider world. A longtime therapist with a master’s degree in social work, she tried countless therapies to help her son. Finally, the 20-year-old Seth enrolled in a class on oil painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2003 … and found his voice, painting relentlessly from then on: > [@](#): > > …Describing his world in paint, he revealed an innate ability to mix colors and create works of art reflecting his vision of his world, and of the world around him. Today his mural, “Manhattan Floating,” adorns the Time Equities Building in New York City. > In 2004, Debra Chwast produced _A Different Kind of Journey_, a short documentary about Seth’s evolution. Over the ensuing years, Seth exhibited his works in this country at the United Nations, the Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Penn State College of Medicine, and the University Hospitals of Case Western Reserve. Overseas, he has shown his work in the Galapagos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands… Seth’s art has brought him to the attention of millions through appearances on such television shows as NBC’s _Good Morning America_. He has also appeared on the _Today Show_ twice, including his New Year’s Day appearance in 2008 - Today’s most inspirational story of the year. Recently, Debra Chwast has written a book about their story, _An Unexpected Life: A Mother and Son’s Story of Love, Determination, Autism, and Art_… > [@](#): > > …_An Unexpected Life_ encourages readers to never give up. Debra and Seth struggle daily and will never have a “normal” life, but they don’t let their hardships define them. They make the best of what life has offered them and keep fighting. (sources: [Artist with Autism to Exhibit, Appear at DHMC | News | Dartmouth-Hitchcock](http://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/news/newsdetail/60494/); [http://www.rrpl.org/local\_history/pdf/ArtWorks\_img.pdf](http://www.rrpl.org/local_history/pdf/ArtWorks_img.pdf); [Review: An Unexpected Life | womenspost.ca](http://www.womenspost.ca/articles/books/review-unexpected-life)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._