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Concluding Autism Acceptance Week 2023

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This week Barbour ABI have I just wanted to personally say thank you to all those who have followed my vlogs and videos over autism acceptance week. I especially wanted to thank the marketing team at Barbour including Kate Perrin and Stuart Edmonson for allowing me to use the team to raise acceptance and awareness. … Read more

Autism Acceptance Week 2023 – Making Reasonable Accommodations

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After being offered a position, a candidate who may not have disclosed in the interview, may disclose during the onboarding process. This process should give a new employee with a disability to chance to explain to their employer what their disability is and the reasonable accommodations they require. It would then be helpful to arrange … Read more

Mental Health Awareness Month

The month of October is National Mental Health Awareness month. To ensure we are doing everything that we can to support everybody within construction and beyond, we will be providing content and resources throughout the month to spread the message that it is okay to not be okay. Mental health is not spoke about enough … Read more

How Employees with Autism Can Benefit the Workplace

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Leading construction intelligence provider, Barbour ABI, is one of the few companies in the UK to recognise and enjoy the benefits of employing an autistic person. To celebrate National Autism Acceptance Day on Apr 2 the company is helping to shine a light on the condition and what businesses can do to harness the unique … Read more

Reasonable Adjustments

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Reasonable adjustments are not favouritism or perks to my work day. Reasonable adjustments are something your employer might have to make to help you do your job as well as someone without a disability. The Equality Act 2010 calls these ‘reasonable adjustments’. They can be changes to policies, working practices or physical layouts, or providing … Read more

What is Sensory Overload? How do I cope?

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Sensory overload happens when something around us overstimulates one or more of our senses. That could be a loud TV, crowded room or smelly food halls. There is suddenly too much information coming in through our senses for our brain to process. Autistic people have a different wiring to their brains so that senses are … Read more

The Perks and the Difficulties of Being Autistic

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Some people hear the word autism and are immediately scared by the word. However, when I was diagnosed autistic, I was nothing but relieved because I finally had answers to all of the questions I was constantly asking of myself. To be honest I had decided if I was found not to be autistic then … Read more

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