Vanderbilt University in the US has established a training programme to better integrate autistic people into the workforce. “We plan to create a new cohort of scholars who fully embrace neurodiversity and leverage it to push forward discovery in science and engineering.” The Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering scheme, which was founded with a $3m grant from the National Science Foundation, will support around 50 engineering and science graduate students over five years in developing assistive technologies and procedures that can harness abilities of autistic people. “Autism is one of those rare conditions where we have no idea
Vanderbilt University in the US has established a training programme to better integrate autistic people into the workforce. The Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering scheme, which was founded with a $3m grant from the National Science Foundation, will support around 50 engineering and science graduate students over five years in developing assistive technologies and procedures that can harness abilities of autistic people. “Autism is one of those rare conditions where we have no idea