Publisher: Houston Chronicle/TNS (author: Suzanne Garofalo)
Topics: Workplace Solutions-Accommodations
Year published: 2018
Type of resource: Publication

When Olivia Shanks landed in the hospital, it changed her life. She didn’t arrive as a patient, though — she came to work. The 21-year-old, who has high-functioning autism, has struggled to get places on time. Some basic workplace tasks stressed her out. Dependence on others dinged her self-confidence. Her work in Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital’s food-services department came via one of Houston’s nonprofit groups providing job training and support for a population that’s exploding but finds few opportunities to live as fully as possible.

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