Autism

Autism

Many of us are deeply touched by people or issues in our lives. For the NameStormers’ founders, that issue is autism and that person is a son, now 20. For a number of years, the company has been focused on helping and supporting those touched by autism and its challenges.

Our involvement has ranged from legislative activity and involvement with several national autism organizations to contributing to a local home for the mentally and physically challenged: Hope House.

We became aware that there is a lack of long-term services, support and jobs for individuals with autism. As the founder’s son moves into adulthood, we realize there is a great opportunity to help improve awareness, support and aid. We believe these individuals can be contributing members of society; they have skills that can make them employable, helping them realize their potential. With his job coach, the founder’s son is able to perform tasks in our office and for a local business and church, too.

For this reason, we have created a jobs for autism website. It is an open portal for individuals with autism and their cargivers, job coaches, parents and guardians to share valuable information and ideas. The website is currently a place to post job success and failure stories as well as share job ideas. Later on, we envision a site to help individuals locate autism-friendly employers with local jobs suited to an autistic individual’s unique skills and special needs. We hope this is a step toward increasing meaningful employment for those with autism.  Many thanks to our initial development team at the University of Notre Dame for helping us get this concept off the whiteboard and onto the website. 
Hope HouseA recent picture from a Hope House field trip.  During this trip high school students and a couple of NameStormers’ team members played London Bridge and other games with special needs residents. 

Jobs for AutismThe dedicated Jobs4Austim team at Notre Dame consisted of 4 Seniors who are, from left to right: Scott Meier, Ramiro (Ram) Ballesteros, Michael Lerma and Kathleen Pedraza.  This photo was also shot by a Notre Dame Senior who has launched her own photography business, Kaity Fuja.  Other samples of her work can be found at www.omg-photography.com.

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  • Thanks so much for all your expert advice and professional project management throughout this endeavor. This has been one of the most satisfying engagements with a vendor that I have experienced over the years, which speaks to the high quality and thoughtful output of your efforts. I especially appreciated your flexibility and patience as the project took on new challenges which impacted the scope of work. You can be certain that as our business grows, NameStormers will be top-of-mind for future work.
    Will Jarred - Executive Director of Sales & Marketing - ETS - Educational Testing Service

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  • I must underscore what an absolute pleasure it was to work with you during this entire project. Your methodical, timely, and resourceful approach to educating me on how a new name affects a company, and the steps you so painstaking address to make the transition a seamless one, were outstanding. Each time I needed to contact you to get direction or clarification, you responded with immediate and informative action. You are the consummate professional and a real pleasure to work with.
    Dorian Stern - Director of Marketing, Logicare

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  • I can't say enough about how well you handled what would have been a very difficult if not impossible branding exercise for us to do in-house. The NameStormers brought an excellent level of creativity, objectivity and a fresh look at what we live with everyday, and that is just what we needed. At the beginning of this project, I had my doubts about our ability to come up with a brand name in just 3 weeks and clearly without your help, we wouldn't have been able to do it. You really made my job easy.
    Kate Strong - Manager, Marketing Communications - Lightbridge

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  • I want to thank you very much for your team's effort on this project. You all worked very quickly and gave us excellent direction. I am sure many hours were spent in developing the many name lists you presented us. Your added value enabled us to move forward with a name consumers preferred over the prior internal name. I look forward to working with your company in the future!
    Brand Category Manager - A Major Global Tire Company

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