Presentation about personal experiences of being on the autism spectrum, developmental history, employment history and autism and a "Fruit Salad" (copyright Donna Williams) Paul Isaacs Speaker, Trainer, Consultant and Author

1. Autism & Employment
Paul Isaacs
Speaker, Trainer, Author and Consultant On
The Autism Spectrum

2. Introduction
• Born 1986
• Brain Injury/Placental Abruption
• Speech & Language Delay
• Functional Speech gained in infancy 7/8 years old
• Mainstream Education
• Late diagnosis in 2010 at age 24
• Diagnosis of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, Visual
Perceptual Disorders and Learning Difficulties in 2012

6. Employment
• Supermarket (2002-2007)
• Care Home (2008)
• Volunteering (2008-2009)
• Autism Oxford (2009-2015)
• Freelance Work (2015-)
• My World (2015-)

7. Employment – Things I Learnt
• New Skills (Mentalising)
• Social Interaction (Visual perception & Language)
• Staff members
• Context (Who? What? Where?)
• Language (receptive and expressive)
• Visual Perception (Faceblindness, Object blindness,
meaning blindness)
• Mental Health issues (Personality disorders, anxiety
disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders and
psychosis)

8. Asperger’s Syndrome &
Autism
• Asperger’s Syndrome:
Literal, Logical With Left Brain
Dominance uses Logic to
make sense the world
• Autism: Less Literal, Logical
With Right Brain Dominance
uses sensory experiences to
make sense of the world
• “Aspinauts” – Mix of both

9. Personhood & Personality
• “Paul” is “me first
• Personality traits & profiles are in all human beings
• My likes and dislikes are not all to do with my
“autism”
• Autism is not the sum and total of my “being”
• I remain balanced in my view of what autism is and
what it means

10. My Books
• Living Through The Haze
• Life Through A Kaleidoscope
• A Pocket Size Practical Guide for
Parents, Professionals and People
on the Autistic Spectrum
• Understanding & Supporting
Autistic Students in Specialist
Schools
• Autism: Inside Perceptions of
Communication, Interaction,
Thoughts & Feelings

11. Other Books
• Endorsed Jennifer Cook O’Toole’s
Asperkids Coloring Book
• Chapter in Gifts of Autism and
Alzheimer's
• Been There, Done That. Try This!
• Colour Coding By Adele Devine
• Uncommon Minds – Artwork

12. The End
Many Thanks
Bucks and Oxon (Outside of counties can be discussed)
If would like me to speak, train, consult please contact me
via email
staypuft12@yahoo.co.uk