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Study Finds Setbacks For Young Autistic Adults

One in 3 lack job experience or higher education, researchers say,

based on data gathered before unemployment peaked from the recession.

About half a million autistic children will reach adulthood in the next

decade.

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Jobless: In this March 2011 photo provided by Jeff ,

Ian Wells

sits on a bicycle in North Hanover, N.J. Wells, 21, of town, N.J.,

has autism and has had trouble finding paid employment. A study being

published recently in Pediatrics says 1 in 3 young adults with autism...

Chicago — One in 3 young adults with

autism have no paid job experience or college or technical education

nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That's

a poorer showing than those with other disabilities, including the

mentally disabled, the researchers said.

With roughly half a million autistic

children who will reach adulthood in the next decade, experts say

policymakers urgently need to address the issue.

The study was done well before

unemployment peaked from the recession. The situation today is tough

even for young adults who don't have such limitations.

The study, to be published online Monday

in Pediatrics, was based on data from 2007 to 2008. It found that

within two years of leaving high school, more than half of those with

autism had no job experience or college or technical education.

Things improved as they got older. Yet

nearly seven years after high school, 35% of autistic young adults

still had no paid employment or education beyond high school.

Those figures compare with 26% of

mentally disabled young adults, 7% of young adults with speech and

language problems, and 3% of those with learning disabilities.

Those with autism may fare worse because

many also have the other disabilities studied.

Government data suggest that 1 in 88

U.S.

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