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

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/85 "2011-12-06T02:45:51Z")

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**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))

Like _Strokes of Genius_, but not specifically targeted to those with Autism or Savant Syndrome, _Creative Growth Art Center_ serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities. The San Francisco Bay Area center provides a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation as well as a social atmosphere among peers.

Aurie Ramirez, who creates elegant watercolors, has worked at the _Creative Growth Art Center_ in Oakland since the early 1980s. The Filipino-American artist is said to have a condition that shares many characteristics with Autism:

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> …“Notably, she both speaks and writes in a language of her own devising.”
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> …At Creative Growth, Ramirez creates work in a studio environment with other artists, takes courses from professional art instructors, and comes into contact with contemporary visiting artists … What is most striking about Creative Growth is its purely institutional character; it is entirely plugged in to the contemporary art world and takes a great deal of care not only to offer a creative environment for its students but to direct their professional careers. One could say that the legacy of outsider and self-taught art is only one among many discourses, including modernist art, contemporary art, and popular culture, with which the artists at Creative Growth are engaged…

Some of Aurie Ramirez’s work can be viewed via the following links: [http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/10/10/aurie-ramirez/](http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/10/10/aurie-ramirez/) and [Examiner is back - Examiner.com](http://www.examiner.com/museum-in-san-francisco/aurie-ramirez-untitled-2000-watercolor-ink-on-paper-photo)

(source: [Fillip / Appealing Biography (Joseph Mosconi)](http://fillip.ca/content/appealing-biography))

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