* Apple’s Volume Licensing for Education available * The graph can be emailed directly to the employer, coach, or guardian. * This information can be seen in day/week and month views. * Employees with disabilities have concrete information about work expectations. * Employers can communicate directly with their employee about work performance. A second graph measuring earnings and lost wages is available to provide concrete information about work choices. Targets can be set on the graph by the employer to clarify work expectations. The Production section allows the user with a disability to see the measure of their work production in concrete terms, using a graph to track timed and/or counted elements of the job. * When starting the schedule the task chosen is displayed along with a time timer, counter and or working clock that represent the expectations set and work completed. * Tasks can be measured timing up, timing down, counting up, counting down and/or following a clock to match the flow of the jobsite and the measure of success. The job coach can be identified as the support to reach work goals. * The schedule can be captured with the employer, who sets the expectations for performance. Parameters measuring the job expectations are set using a visual timer, counter and/or clock. The Schedule section allows the user with a disability to capture work tasks in the order to be completed, with the ability to break each task into smaller steps using video, photo, voice and/or text. * In the “External” section, capture others with messages, Ex) your family informing the employer of an upcoming vacation request. * Preprogram regular communication for use on the worksite. * Like others, share stories between home and work about special events. * Communication about, for or by the person is captured by the user. The Messages section allows the user with communication challenges to tell stories across environments and to communicate with customers and coworkers. Work Autonomy uses real photos and voice rather than black line drawings and automated voices typical in picture exchange communication systems (PECS) and other augmentative communication systems. Voice and Text options can stand-alone or be used with pictures for labeling or captions.Īll programmed information is stored in a library within the section captured and can be retrieved for repetitive use. Photos of people, places and things can capture the users actual experience, providing the most functional connection between the picture and what it represents. Video can be used to capture gestures, ASL, specific actions, routes to locations, etc. Sections allow for the capture of content using video, photo, text and/or voice to meet the preferences or communication and processing needs of the user. All or any of three sections can be turned on and programmed for use: Messages, Schedules and Production. The design is focused on access for the user with a disability to program and track concrete information about their work life. People with disabilities, parents, teachers, SLPs, and Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists recommend Work Autonomy for people with Downs Syndrome, autism, cognitive disorders, intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, stroke and traumatic brain injury. Work Autonomy provides higher levels of independence for people with disabilities in the work site allowing for fluency in three areas that traditionally challenge successful competitive placements: person-generated communication with coworkers and supervisors regardless of linguistic or cognitive skill, tracking task analysis and work schedules independently, and allowing access to concrete information about work expectations, production and dollars.
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