Three longitudinal outcome studies on employment for autistic adults consistently show particularly poor results for women. Source: Fotolia

Long-term outcome studies show that autistic people lag behind other groups with potentially disabling conditions in employment, with employment mostly limited to unskilled positions, and outcomes poorest for women. I spoke about this recently at the annual conference of the National Association of Disability Examiners, and you can read more, in a new blog post on my forensic practice site.