Our Results/ Success Stories!

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We combine an art education conservatory with real-world commercial production, making us a place for neurodivergent artists to learn, collaborate, and produce their best works in filmmaking, music, voice acting, animation, and visual art. We then coach our students on how to be successful in the entertainment industry! 

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• Many Spectrum Laboratory students have appeared on the Netflix show “Atypical”, as well as other tv shows, films, animations and commercials!

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• We created “Boys Don’t Wear Dresses”, a short film that explores the life of a transgender autistic artist, inspired by a film student at Spec Labs. This original film has been an official selection for 17 film festivals and has won 6 awards, including Best Screenplay, 2 Audience Choice awards, Best LGBQT+ film, Best Alternate Abilities and Favorite Film! It also screened in West Hollywood at Fiesta Hall in honor of Disability awareness month and got certificates and awards from the city of West Hollywood!

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• Students regularly secure auditions and employment for acting and voice acting roles for networks like HBO MAX, Netflix, Amazon, NBC, Disney, Hulu, Fox, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, etc.

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• Students have landed paid jobs scoring original music for “Sesame Street”, “Exceptional Minds”, "Autism Live" and the “Special Olympics” 

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• Spec Labs has hired their autistic students to work on freelance jobs, including acting, voice acting, animation, visual design, graphic design, composing scores for Spec Labs in house productions as well as outside clients and jobs working on film sets in front and behind camera.

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• Spec Labs has coached and hired their autistic students to work inside the classroom and on Spec Labs projects.

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• Spec Labs has hired autistic instructors to work alongside their students in the classroom, like Dani Bowman who got her first teaching job in Los Angeles with us! Dani worked with Spec Labs from 2016-2021 and is now running her own animation company Danimation! https://danimationentertainment.com/

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• Spec Labs was one of the go-to autism organizations to collaborate with Cian O'Clery, the director and show creator, for the Netflix show "Love on the Spectrum" Cian met Dani Bowman & Abbey Romeo at Spec Labs as well as many other autistic artists who over the years would appear on the show.