Ahead of 2015’s World Autism Awareness Day, the Scotland-based coding platform LiveCode has launched a fundraising campaign to seek support for its online training program that will teach coding to 3,000 people around the world who have autism.
If they can reach their $350,000 goal, the company will create a special version of its training program to teach individuals with autism how to design mobile apps. A small number of people who successfully complete the 6- to 12-month program will get hired into the company.
The idea came from Todd Fabacher, a father whose son has autism, and who also happens to be good friends with the people at LiveCode.
Fabacher explained in a campaign video that when he learned only 56 percent of people with an autism spectrum disorder in the United States graduated from high school, and an even higher percentage of them are under or unemployed, he decided that he had to do something about it.
