In 2015, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, the chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, helped create a new hiring system focusing on key talents of candidates with autism. Knowing that those with autism are likely to lack social/communication skills, she created a vetting process that lasts multiple weeks, allowing the candidates to show their skills in multiple domains. Lay-Flurrie tells a CBS interviewer, “It’s a talent pool that really hasn’t been tapped.” Since then, other big-name companies, like JP Morgan and Ford, have followed in her footsteps and are coming together to bring more adults with autism into the workforce. In the NDL, we’ve joined with leaders of Have Dreams to provide internships for 9 different young adults with autism as part of their job training in the Project SEARCH program.