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.
Summer Job Story for Transition Age Youth Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorder and are Considered High Functioning.
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: 90BISA0055.
About grant numbers.Start Date: June 1, 2022.
Length: 6 months.
NIDILRR Officer: Dawn Carlson, PhD, MPH.
NIDILRR Funding: FY 22 $99,740; FY 23 $0 (No-cost extension through 3/1/2023).
Abstract: The goal of this project is to determine the feasibility of using an Animated Spoken Interactive Fiction (AIF) story to help young high school high functioning students with autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD) between 14- and 16-years old practice pre-employment transition skills (pre-ETS) to obtain a summer job, and to provide information to teachers so they may deliver more targeted instruction and better utilize instructional time. AIF is a computer-based “choose-your-own-adventure” story, where the student is presented with hundreds of “decision points”, and the story plot proceeds based on the student’s choice, so they can experience the outcome of their decisions in a safe, non-judgmental, virtual environment. The objectives of this project are to (1) define the requirements for a system that enables an HF-ASD student to practice pre-ETS skills, (2) develop a prototype computer-based AIF story, (3) build a prototype web service to capture the student’s progress and display it as skill charts in a browser for the teacher, and (4) assess acceptability and usefulness the system to improve pre-ETS skills with actual HF-ASD students who represent a cross-section of the underserved population. The outcome of this project is an intervention system that is both acceptable and useful to HF-ASD students that may be used under teacher guidance to help students obtain and maintain gainful summer employment by mastery of many pre-ETS skills.
Descriptors: , Animated Spoken Interactive Fiction (AIF), Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pre-employment, Transition skills, Transition-age youth.
Documents in REHABDATA: There are no documents related to this project.