![]() During her three years at Landmark College, she has worked fervently to increase the number of professional work experiences for neurodiverse individuals both locally and nationwide at Hasbro, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft and SAP. ![]() Jan is passionately committed to creating greater awareness of the advantages individuals with learning differences bring to the workplace. She is currently the Director of Career Connections at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont, an institution exclusively for students who learn differently, including students with a learning differences (such as dyslexia, ADHD and autism). Jan has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of education and has been a career counselor for the past eight years. She is a Project Leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism, and is amongst the first cohort of Fellows inaugurated into the International Society for Autism Research (in 2018). Dissanayake was instrumental in bringing together Victorian and Australian autism researchers, having co-founded the Autism Victoria ASD Research Group (in 2003), the Australasian Autism Research Alliance (in 2005), the Australasian Autism Research Collaboration (in 2009) and the Australasian Society for Autism Research (2011), a member based society of which she is vice-president. In addition to her scholarly activities, with numerous grants and publications, Prof. ![]() On completion she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in the Sigman lab at UCLA, and has established and led an active research program since joining La Trobe University in 1996. She has been an autism researcher since 1984, when she began her PhD at Monash University. Professor Dissanayake is the Founding Director of Australia’s first research centre dedicated to autism established in 2008. Director, Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University
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