WALL, NJ – In conjunction with National Autism Awareness Month, Student Transportation Inc. (STI) is using the month of April to roll out a company-wide education program designed to teach its employees more about the disorder and how to transport autistic passengers even more effectively and safely. Employees will be trained through the company’s distance learning system, ST University, where they will engage in a multimedia program including learning slides with voiceover instruction, a video segment, and quizzes to reinforce the material they learned.

“Autism affects 1 in 110 children worldwide and we transport over 500,000 students daily. So understanding autism is very important to our core mission of transporting students to school safely and on-time every day,” says council leader and STA Western Pennsylvania General Manager, Jeff Finfrock. “I am proud to be a part of a company that is putting forth the resources and showing this kind of commitment to all of our passengers, especially those with special needs.”

To learn more about autism and what you can do to help raise awareness, visit www.nationalautismassociation.org or www.autismspeaks.org. For more information on Student Transportation Inc, visit www.RideSTA.com or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StudentTransportation.

About Student Transportation

Founded in 1997, Student Transportation Inc. (STI) is North America’s third-largest provider of school bus transportation services, operating more than 7,000 vehicles. STI’s family of local companies delivers safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation solutions to school districts throughout the U.S. and Canada. Services are delivered by drivers, dispatchers, maintenance technicians, terminal managers and others who are caring members of their local communities. For more information, please visit www.rideSTA.com.