NIDILRR Program Database Detailed Record.
Project Type/Research Category: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Phase I.
Funding Priority: Technology for Access and Function.
For more information on NIDILRR's funding priorities, read about NIDILRR's Core Areas of Research in the Long Range Plan at
https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/about-acl/2019-01/NIDILRR%20LRP-2018-2023-Final.pdf.
Transition Adventure – An Interactive Fiction Game for Visually Impaired Students to Improve Pre-Employment Skills.
This project has completed its research activities and is now closed. Check REHABDATA for documents.Objective Ed, Inc..
15355 Take Off Place.
Wellington, FL 33414-8306.
E-mail: marty@objectiveED.com.
Principal Investigator: Martin Schultz.
Public Contact Phone: 844/442-6439.
Project Number: 90BISA0035.
About grant numbers.Start Date: September 1, 2020.
Length: 6 months.
NIDILRR Officer: Hugh Berry, EdD.
NIDILRR Funding: FY 20 $98,750; FY 21 $0 (No-cost extension through 5/31/2021).
Abstract: This SBIR project develops and evaluates an interactive fictional text-adventure game—Transition Adventure—for students with visual disabilities to practice and improve pre-employment skills including independent living, social, and problem-solving skills. IDEA and the Rehabilitation Act require all students with visual disabilities receive pre-employment transition skill training. This specialty instruction may be limited by academic resources (i.e., teacher shortage, funding) resulting in poor outcomes. Transition Adventure offers students an opportunity to improve their skills between sessions with their teachers thus promoting self-efficacy and improving transitional outcomes. Project activities include establishing pre-employment transition skill requirements and developing and evaluating the efficacy of the interactive fiction text-adventure game—Transition Adventure—with the target population (i.e., students with visual disabilities). This project partners with the Carroll Center for the Blind; and receives support from the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, Florida Division of Blind Services, and the American Foundation for the Blind.
Descriptors: , Employment, Instructional games, Skills training, Students with disabilities, Technology, Transition, Visual disabilities.
Documents in REHABDATA: There are no documents related to this project.