# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![Visionary7903](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Visionary7903](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Visionary7903)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245/90 "2011-12-12T07:42:16Z")
**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)) Chicago-based _Project Onward_ is another organisation like _Strokes of Genius_ - however only about a third of the Project Onward artists are autistic. Another of the artists with Autism that is part of the program is David Holt: > [@](#): > > …His paintings of pop music icons and biblical scenes possess the devotional zeal of a street preacher and the whimsy of an amusement park ride. His bold colors and emphatic text suggest a worldview that is untroubled by nuance and eager to spread the good word, whatever the message may be… > [@](#): > > …Twenty-five-year-old David Holt’s pencil drawings and paintings recall both folk and pop art — colorful, bright portraits of the dead and the living, including Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Dean, Ron Santo, Mama Cass, his grandmother, Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus and Beyonce… Here is a link to some of Holt’s artwork: [Project Onward | Artists](http://www.projectonward.org/artists/davidholt) (sources: [http://www.explorechicago.org/etc/medialib/explore\_chicago/dca\_tourism/dca\_releases.Par.92989.File.dat/InquireWithin.pdf](http://www.explorechicago.org/etc/medialib/explore_chicago/dca_tourism/dca_releases.Par.92989.File.dat/InquireWithin.pdf); [http://www.chicagojournal.com/News/12-29-2010/Artists\_with\_disabilities\_find\_space\_to\_shine\_at\_the\_Chicago\_Cultural\_Center](http://www.chicagojournal.com/News/12-29-2010/Artists_with_disabilities_find_space_to_shine_at_the_Chicago_Cultural_Center)) --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/specialisterne-leveraging-the-unique-skills-of-autistics-at-competitive-market-terms/50245)._