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Business news Employees Latest ArticlesJanuary 16, 2023by Aron Mercer

A Balancing Act: The Impact of AI on Employment for Individuals with Disabilities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tools like ChatGPT have the potential to greatly benefit the employment of people with disabilities, both visible and invisible. The use of AI and automation in the workplace can provide new opportunities for employees with disabilities to participate in the workforce and remove barriers that have traditionally made it difficult for...

Employers Latest Articles TechnologyDecember 15, 2022by Aron Mercer

Practical advice on how to recruit and retain autistic professionals

This is a recorded conversation with one of Xceptional’s tech partners Zoho Recruit offering practical advice on how to recruit and retain autistic professionals.

Business Latest ArticlesOctober 31, 2022by Aron Mercer

Are your neurodivergent employees invisible?

Who has not dreamed of spending a day being invisible? Being able to go where you please, do what you want and uncover any number of secrets that you would otherwise know nothing about? Of course, it is not that simple, as the protagonists in any of the many films on the theme quickly find...

Latest ArticlesOctober 20, 2022by Aron Mercer

ADHD special abilities

The image that often comes to mind with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disruptive, naughty, fidgety boy. A living version of Bart Simpson. This blog seeks to separate the myth from reality and provide a first person account of the benefits of this often misunderstood condition. For my fellow ADHD’ers, I have kept...

Latest ArticlesOctober 18, 2022by Aron Mercer

A new look for Xceptional

18 October 2022 – Today neurodiversity specialist Xceptional has unveiled its updated website incorporating it’s newly developed tools of inclusive skills assessments and on demand inclusion training. The website refresh was necessary to reflect Xceptional’s maturing position as a leader in neurodivergent inclusion. It has been more than five years since Xceptional first opened our doors...

Job Seekers Latest ArticlesMay 9, 2022by Aron Mercer

7 Things Dyslexic People Wished You Knew

Dyslexia is a condition that most of us think we understand, but few of us actually do. It can be defined as a difference that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. But there is much more to dyslexia than that. It is a neurodivergent condition, meaning that dyslexic brains...

Latest ArticlesMay 5, 2022by Aron Mercer

7 Things ADHD’ers Wished You Knew

ADHD is what makes some children unable to settle for more than 30 seconds and run around in a hyperactive frenzy the whole time, right? Well, no. That’s not right at all. What is ADHD? ADHD Australia provides a useful definition, ADHD refers to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a complex neuro-developmental disorder which affects a...

Latest ArticlesApril 7, 2022by Shamus Hart

Beyond the buzzword. What does Neurodiversity mean for business?

Neurodiversity = Neurology + Diversity The Australian sociologist, Judy Singer, coined the term Neurodiversity in the late ’90s. Singer described an inherent range in how the human mind functions regarding the functional processing of information, emotions and thoughts (Honeybourne 2020, p. 13). The term “neurodiversity” refers to the various mental models that persist in a population as...

Employees Employers Job Seekers Latest ArticlesApril 4, 2022by Shamus Hart

The 101 of how not to manage Autistic employees

Leadership, you need to know this. If you don’t believe you have hidden neurodiverse employees on staff, the chances are that you do. Neurodiversity and tapping into this resource is a hot topic. According to research, neurodiversity in the general population is between 30% to 40%. With the amount of literature online about autism and neurodiversity specifically...

Employees Job Seekers Latest ArticlesApril 1, 2022by Aron Mercer

7 Things Autistic People Wished You Knew

Around one in a hundred people are autistic, perhaps even more. Yet many people have a very limited understanding of autism, and that may be based on incorrect beliefs. So here are 7 important things that autistic people wish you knew about us! All autistic people are individuals If you have met one autistic person,...

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