Work and livelihood
Specialisterne Foundation
Ballerup, Denmark
A Danish foundation, founded by the father of an autistic son, that places autistic and other neurodivergent people into paid jobs with partner companies through an assessment and training model.
- Focus
- Autism, Neurodiversity, cross-neurotype
- Leadership
- Family- or professional-led
- Where
- In person and online
- Languages
- Danish, English
- Since
- 2004
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Verified 2026-09-08 from european-social-fund-plus.ec.europa.eu. Added 2026-09-08 by the editorial team.
Note: Founded by Thorkil Sonne; credited with creating roughly 10,000 jobs for autistic people globally through corporate partnerships (SAP, Microsoft, IBM and others). Included as a large, well-known anchor organisation; leadership is not itself predominantly neurodivergent-led.
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