Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of attending The UN 2015 World Awareness Autism Day Event “Employment: The Autism Advantage.” Todd Fabacher and I attended in response to the UN’s Call to Action for companies to offer vocational training and employment for individuals on the autism spectrum.
While I sat in the General Assembly listening to speeches by Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Keynote Jack Markell, Governor of Delaware, and other representatives from the U.S. Counsel for International Business, Autism Europe, Hewlett-Packard, and young adults with autism, I was moved.
Throughout the day, I heard so many speak about the need for persons with special needs to be treated equally and that diversity should be viewed as a competitive advantage in our innovative economy.
On April 2, LiveCode and its partners launched its initiative to teach and mentor 3,000 individuals with autism to code apps and become professional software developers. As I listened and read through all the enthusiastic tweets, retweets and news coverage of LiveCode’s campaign, I knew we had made a difference.
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