Technology for Successful Employment Event in Progress: 02:05:56

Good afternoon everybody. This is Norine Gill with UNT WISE and I'm here to help introduce and facilitate our workshop today, which is on using technologies which -- we are having challenges with, ourselves, this afternoon. Marsha will be joining us soon, as we try to get everything in from Seattle to help us through the rest of this workshop for the next hour and a half talking about assistive technology.

And, using iPad and things that we can do on a daily basis with the people that we are serving and supporting. As you know, this is a very interact if type of webinar. We did get a few responses back from homework from the last s ession, from last Thursday. We will show those responses. If there are those in the audience that did not have the opportunity to send that by email, if you would put your responses or experience in the question box, will notice, if you can hear me, go ahead and send me an email saying that you can hear everything okay. Also, if you have any questions or experiences since last week's session, that you want to be able to share with our audience today, and with our speaker.

Let me go ahead and see any comments coming in. We have from Diana, seeing on the screen, I have what Diane has said from something that she uses for keeping her schedule and I wanted to be sure to share that with you, as well. I have from Jordan, who said that he was hoping we could get more information about Android products and how some of the information we heard from last week and this week would also be available for A ndroid.

Some other comments that we did have, and I'm not sure if Martha is on, yet. If she will share it with us. But, one comment that we received from Victor, was that under the video section of his iPad, he found closed captions, which he really likes. It's for people who are difficult to understand or four people who have problems hearing. Under the video tab under general, he found closed captioning for accessibility. He found that to be very helpful.

This is -- if hello, Diana. Thanks for sending a note. Kimberly, are you there? Christin, Angelina, just checking in to see if you can hear okay.

Or, if you are busy typing in your comments.

All right, Kimberly. Thank you. Should be able to find comments in the question box in the control panel. Go ahead and send in -- thank you, Angelina. Did any of you work on any of the skills or the apps that Marsha shared with us last week? Did you have any experiences or things to share? That's the question

up right now as we wait for Marsha to finally be able to connect with us. If you had anything, please submit the comments.

I just received a question from Marsha. Apparently, Fichter also try to make a movie with an iPad that has the the videocamera and transferred to iTunes but can't figure out how to transfer that video, now, over to an older iPad. That will be a question for us to ask, in terms of transferring or getting videos from one tool to another. Good questions. Good stuff.

Angelina asked, I do not have a n iPad. Will [Indiscernible] provided? That all depends. If you have -- if you are a person with a disability who is a recipient and you have assistive technology goal or for education or employment purposes, it is worth asking for its. If it's something you are going to do as a rehabilitation provider, you are more likely to have to purchase that for funds that you earn through that contract with DARS as a CRP. Are you are recipient or a rehabilitation provider?

I still have not received word from the organizers that we have Marsha on board. I'm still waiting. In the meantime, I'm willing to take any additional comments from our participants. If you have anything to share, so that we can take a few more minutes waiting for Marcia to join join us.

Diana, if you are there, sense you did send in the document, I hope it's up on your board. I will unmute and see if I can hear you. Hopefully, if you are there, you will be able to join us.

Diana, are you there?

She sent me a note. She has no microphone. I am so sorry to hear that, because it would be nice if you could have joined us to let us learn more about your experience in working with Toodles as we wait for the speakers to join us.

Sorry to hear that. I'd be more than happy to give you all what I know about assistive technology, but that would be limited in scope. Not exactly what you paid to do. If you all would respond in the question box, hopefully, you are seeing my screen, which has a Toodles -- up from YouTube that Diana did submit. What do you see up on your screen, at this point? Or, just the announcement of the webinar session?

Just the announcement, okay, thank you, Kimberly. The name of the course -- let's see -- I'm -- I changed to my screen. That should have happened for you. If you all want to let me know if you actually do see my screen, at this point.

Marsha is there. Hello, all my goodness. [Laughter] Yay.

Good morning.

Good morning. Hopefully, all the participants should be able to see your screen.

Just a second. I need to get reflector up and going. Can you see my iPads, now?

Yes. We can see your iPads. Lovely. You see my PowerPoint.

Did you check about homework? Did that happen without me?

A little bit. What we did have is Diana Gonzales sent through YouTube video on Toodles which she uses for scheduling and four programming throughout the day. I hadn't realized that they couldn't see my screen as I was talking about it I was going to share information about Toodles. I was hoping Diana had a mic and her computer, but she did not, to be able to talk about herself. Unfortunately, we were table to share that. From Victor, we got a couple of things. One, under General and video, you found closed captioning and he really liked that for people who are difficult to understand.

Built-in to the equipment, yes, you can turn that on, yet.

He liked that. The other comments he made, was he made a movie with one iPad that had a video camera built-in and sent to iTunes but couldn't figure out how to transfer to an older iPad.

Well, within an iPad 1, I'm not sure -- the iPad 1, they don't have the camera's built-in and there is a lot that you can't do with those anymore. Some of the up dates to the operating systems from 6 forward, iCOB -- I don't know -- the iPad, they are coasters or cutting b oards. [Laughter] You just can't get much

information in or out of them them. From2 forward, host of my iPads are 2 and you can do all of the system upgrades. I upload my movies to iTunes, to YouTube, I mean. And, to either private for share with others, but not public. So, if you are trying to do it with a 1 or get to a 1, Victor, you are going to have problems.

He just confirmed that it was a n iPad 1.

So sorry. The1 doesn't really work for us anymore. From2 forward, we are good.

He said that's because of the consumer uses.

Yes. Those are still kicking around and sometimes a been handed down to people. If you can get them a 2 or forward, it's a good way to go.

Then, Jordan asked if any of the applications could be used on an Android product and he asked for more in translation, in terms of how some of the things you are talking about will wait to Android and smartphone.

Yes. Many of the apps today are available on Android. Not all. There is still able to get more apt options on iOS Apple devices. But, the number of them I showed today are also on Android devices. Any of you who happen to be in the App Store or looking around for apps for Android that the same time I am speaking, you might type in information about availability of the apps I will talk about.

Okay. Well, I think you need to get g oing. We've got a lot to talk about.

I think so, too. Sorry for my delay. My coming in looked very different than it did a week ago. It was trying a variety of things.

We are going to be talking about cap sequencing, checklist, schedulers. One of my new favorite categories and that is calming and coping a pps. We made a number of jobseekers and supported employees that anxiety is an issue for them. Also, this basis between things that might be breaks and that sort of thing that can be difficult for people. We are going to look at apps related to that and I always say instead of using an Apple or something that works for somebody when the problem comes

up, when you see at behavior or when you see anxiety or when a meltdown happens, it's great if you can use it right then. Instead, think about, periodically, through that person's day, putting the Coleman devices throughout the day and then what you see, is those episodes happen less often. More and more, I am meeting people that those who support them use those devices when the incident occurs instead of regularly on an ongoing basis so the incident never occurs. We will look at some remote support options, really new ideas and some old ones, as well.

So, let's start with a story and a really simple app that's called pin ultimate. It allows you to write on the screen. You can also pull in pictures in a variety of things. I am meeting a number of people that touching the screen -- and some people who experience autism, more typically, touching the screen is not referred. They will use that stylist -- stylist to do it hereby met someone who had a job and it was working behind the scenes in in fulfillment. He had to pull products of different types and put them into one box or bag going out the front door and he had to go to different rooms and he would get stuck when he would go to a new environment. He was someone who did not use a keyboard. He wrote. But I saw, once he had an employment specialist with him all the time. They could write back and forth in a note up. Speaking did not work with this person. When he would get stuck you would ask the question to his job coach who was behind him -- beside him and that's a hard thing to do on an ongoing basis, who would write information back on what he was supposed to do. I imagine your wheels are turning, too. This is a pretty you think -- easy thing to solve. You just needs to be able to write on the screen of a smart vice and email back or text back or put it in dropbox, there's a multitude of ways. Comma Blake you will email or text over to someone who could then write on something and send it b ack. We are replacing the right on the screen with that piece of paper and I'm going to suggest Pen Ultimate. Let's take a look at that app.

Well, okay -- why -- I'm sorry, my PowerPoint doesn't want to minimize. [Laughter] It doesn't want to close out work this is very interesting. I am having a heck of a time today, guys.

The sunspots are comes despite -- are conspiring against you or something.

I did updates on my computer this morning. PowerPoint -- all right. I just quit my PowerPoint. Now, let's see. Every go. See my iPads? Pen Ultimate -- what Pen Ultimate is, is a series of blank pages. You have a number of note book. -- note notebooks. This is a note to welcome to Pen Ultimate. It comes and talks you through how to do everything. Is that a free app or a nap they pay for? Pen Ultimate is sometimes free and sometimes it costs a dollar or two. I'm not sure what is right now. It will probably cost $1.99 or something. I can write on this green, pick a variety of colors. I can pull in pictures. I can take a picture, pull something from my photos. If I pull any old thing in here -- that really doesn't matter, Marsha.

I can size the picture any size I wanted to be. I can move it around on the screen. You can see right away that I can make this into an instant checkbox. I can't think on-the-fly. I person can come along and check it off. But, I can also decide to get information. Give information to someone. I have the choice of printing that. I can send it to dropbox, I can email it. I can open it another pages. If I lived email that to my job coach, they could send me an email or a text or something back and let me know what to do and that's what this person did. Prior to that, he had to have someone with him all the time, just to cause they needed to write back and forth. [Laughter] It shouldn't make any sense at all.

Reopened that PowerPoint. The question was, did the person right to coworkers. In this particular case, when I left the picture, that did not occur. You see how it could go from writing to the job coach over to writing back and forth with Pen Ultimate, with a coworker, with your boss, so you can move to natural supports that way. Because I'm not an employment specialist, I don't stay with someone for the long haul. They call me and when they can't figure something out. They think technology might be helpful, so that was that particular person and situation.

Am going to show choice works, [Indiscernible] and visual s chedule. These are three typical ones you might know about work choice works, 99% of choice works are really l ove. As one thing that people don't like I agree with it. That is the voice that's built-in. It's a younger person, kind of a child's voice. It works very, very much like a picture exchange system where you have one laminated strip with pictures and take the picture. You move the picture to the other strip. People who have learned that system of text will understand Choice Works burial is a. I will show you Pictello. They to -- it's the same app as the egg, robust communication app, Colo coat to go, which many people know and use. It's a European app maker. Visual schedule HD maybe a wonderful American app maker called good Karma productions. We are going to take a look at those.

Yay, it works. We have to take our goals as we make them. Let's look at Choice Works. You are able to make scheduling boards, waiting boards and healing boards. I'm concerned with scheduling boards. You can see as many boards as you like. I will open up I Tuesday routine at Safeway.

The first thing -- I will show you how it runs. You can see along the left you would have your different tasks. You can take your own pictures to put in there and that's always the best, that you take pictures of the person's real environment. The poll also like it when they are in the photos, white often. Or, you can pull in photos through the Internet. Or, you can use their canned p hotos. I never recommending -- never recommend using the canned app's. When I touch the first one, the grocery cart one, and my volume is up --

Get the grocery carts from the parking lot.

That cues me to get the grocery carts. I can start a timer or not use the timer, if you don't want to use the timer. That brings after it goes down. When I finished, I take a picture and slide it to the all done column on the right.

Go and get the grocery cart from the parking lot. All done.

Okay. That's one of the newer voices. It's not too bothersome, that particular voice. I would touch my next -- I will touch my next task.

Wiped down the freezer cases.

That's my voice that I recorded. When I'm done I slide over.

[Indiscernible] is see how this works.

Simple.

Stock serial. All done.

People who have used laminated strips really understand this system. One thing I like very much about Choice Works, is that let's me know what the bottom, where it says and then I can -- back go to Starbucks.

Or my other choice, this into music on my iPad.

That also has a timer. If I do this during my break, by timer goes off when it's over. After the break I might have a new page. I'm going to push reset in the corner.

It's very easy to make one of these. This little sample took seven minutes, or something, to put together. But, I like that there is the reinforcer or what to do when you've completed those things. That's the really good thing about choice works. While we are in here, when we talk about colname or coping a little bit later on, the feeling board lets people know how to deal with things. This is when I feel angry, I can talk with my friends.

When I am feeling angry --

I have two choices on this b oard.

Talk with my friends, Jamie. Take a deep breath.

What I've calmed down, again, there's choices.

[Indiscernible]

Buy a snack snack.

Anyway, along the bottom you see where it says all boards, schedule, that's my schedule board my waiting board and feeling board. The schedule board is the one we were looking at for task doing. Let's look at Pictello.

Before you leave that, we want to know how you made your most do that in the photo.

Photo Booth. It's built-in. See how Photo Booth? See the red icon -- touched Photo Booth. Let's see. There we are. This is me. See how you can take those p ictures? I choose one of those. There we go. [Laughter] That's Photo Booth.

That is really scary. Was I braved to do that?

We are very brave.

Let's look at Pictello. Pictello allows you to pull in pictures or videos. It's easy to do task queuing. I will show you this one. It's done with he automated voice. This task system was put together to teach support people how to support Colleen.

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Now, I just touch the screen anywhere. One finger, five fingers.

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Then I swiped and it goes to the next page.

[Indiscernible] while you wait. Arrival times can vary.

See how this could be a task queuing system for someone? They would do is the video or picture would come up. Your recorded voice or the automated voice let them know what to do when they swiped to the next action when they are through. Did I show you last week all of the different languages?

Yes.

Okay. Let's look at visual scheduler. This is my favorite one. It's my favorite one, although Choice Works is so easy. I'm going to open up. You can have as many different schedules as you want. I will open up central market schedule. Again, I just touch the picture anywhere using any amount of finger swipe. It doesn't take much fine motor control at all.

Cleaned the food been. Put your gloves son then get both of your cleaning bottles to take with you.

When I touched that picture, it caused the video to open. I didn't have to touch a the second time. After I did that step, I touch in the box to the left and it checks off. I go to the next one and touch anywhere and it causes the video to open.

Arrive at Central market. Go to your work experience site at the central market and you leave the program which is located at the community college and catch the bus out front. It takes you away from the community college, along 100 and 60th and into the shopping center where the central market is, right there.

It -- I forgot to check it off. You see how that works? I can have timers associated with things. I can view this in different looks. If somebody wants to view in this kind of look, instead, I can email information about it.

I can look at it that way. It also has the option -- I look under tools. I can print one of the schedules if I want to. Again, you have to have a printer that is Bluetooth compatible with the iPad. Or, I can share the schedule with others. Most of these, the sharing, you use iTunes and all of these apps. You can set a password to get in. It's very easy to use it. With -- with Choice Works, P ictello, and visual schedule, that I showed you thus far, you need to get to the persons device to set these up your you would need to be in the same location as these devices, at least when you set these up. You couldn't change them quickly on-the-fly, if you were 5 miles away. I'm going to show you an app, now, that allows you to do that.

Show me QR manager is a task queuing app. It lets you remotely change the information. If what they need to do next or holiday is that the person does it -- if that changes today, or all of a sudden it's changed, from wherever I am, I can get in and change that information for the person. This is really cool. Show me QR just came out in the spring.

Let me show you how it works. Made by a wonderful at maker with best communications, Gordon Harris. We will see Gordon in a minute. I had to close everything about earlier. When I was trying to get in, I lost my little -- I am so happy to be i n. [Laughter]

So, this is show me QR. You will see right now, it's cheap. I don't think it will stay this cheap. Let's look at how this works. It uses QR codes generated by the manager app. You place those anywhere in the environment in the person scans them. You will see in the corners, when the video plays, you will see QR codes come up. That means this person has scanned and they are seeing the video.

[ Music] The morning, hope you had a good night work I need you to go to the second-floor, room 231 and talk to John. [Indiscernible-low volume] today. Before you go, swing by your locker and pick up your hand toolkit. [Indiscernible-low volume] today. But away, you did a fantastic job [Indiscernible-low volume]. If you have any questions, press the green button and I will help you out. Have a good day.

Music back

[Music]

I'm just trying to get out of here. I haven't lost you, have five, Norine?

I'm still here. I'm looking for questions in regards to show me QR manager.

A little bit more about how it works. I will still take questions, of course, as we go.

Great.

I want my other I had, now. It allows me to do a couple of o nce. The manager generates the QR codes. Visualize them as something about 1 inch by 1 inch on a piece of paper. If you cut that out and put it in a person's work environment, it's nothing that will be very big or show way, nothing that says, jeepers, a special works -- a special person works your needs special information. It's a tiny QR code you've laced in the environment. A come along with a scanner and you open that up. I'm going to push the box to the left, the pixilated -- and what it does is open up my camera.

I'm going to put that over a QR code that I generated to show you how to feed my chickens.

, here we go. I push the video.

All right. So, to feed the chickens you put meal [Indiscernible] and and LAT should -- and this, they really like. Oyster shells which are good for them. In the top of the feeding been. [ Chickens clucking ] hello, there.

In Gordon's demo video, he said, if you have any questions, push that little green button. Do you see the green button to the right? Because I'm on an iPad when I push it, -- all, show me QR is available in Android devices, as well. Not just iOS devices. Any old devices. It opens up Skype. I just push to I want to Skype w ith. If I'm using show me QR on an iPhone, I have the option of it going to my contact and calling my alling my job coach or my boss or coworker, whoever I have to ask. Again, is that starting to make sense? I would come along, scan the QR code and it opens up a video. If I still have questions, I can Skype or call with whoever it is I need to get information from. If that information needs to change that day, the person who has the manager app, Show Me QR manager, can go in, open up the QR code and the video and make a different video. It is that simple.

It's part of the beauty of this one. You can change information and be a long way away.

Cool, right? So, I think -- where did my other iPad go?

Off to the side somewhere. There it is. Okay. Does that make sense? Questions? Show Me QR is very simple to put those together. I recommend giving it a whirl, if you need to remotely be able to do those with people.

Now, Show Me QR has connected up with I've Bekins.

Sure on the wall that looks like an air freshener? That's and iBeacon. When your phone allows the loop to signal, and you are in the proximity of a iBeacon, it rings up the information and takes you to a webpage to alert you. It may be thinking of retail environments. If I had my smartphone on, I may have been able to pick those up when I walked by a iBeacon. It would let me know about the red high heels on sale at 50% off. That's what they thought work they also wanted to use it to make things accessible in museums, so people who are nonreaders or experience blindness can go by and it will tell them what was in the environment. Of course, for those interested in job supports for people with disabilities, I right away went, does that mean somebody could walk by a iBeacon and it would give them information? Or, somebody trying to live independently in their home, same thing.

I did a conference about a year ago and had Apple in the same room listening to Gordon Harris, who created Show Me QR code. After which, the Apple guy went over and said, we've got to get together. What if we used iBeacon in conjunction with Show Me QR? That's just what Gordon Harris has gone on to do. The iBeacon, you can be at 150 feet away from them and it will still pick them up. So, now, those can be associated with the QR code. When you go by those, they will open up into your Show Me QR

code video and you have the same option of calling your job coach if you are not there. In this case, you would have to scan. You know how I had to hold my device over the QR code to open it? If you have that -- in this case, I wouldn't have to think to scan. I just walked by a iBeacon, it opens it up for me. Does that start to make sense? There's also videos on Gordon's website about how that work. With iBeacon, it's a more exciting, new stuff that's going on where people can walk through environments and get information.

A couple of comments, is the Show Me QR app is really great for employers of all kinds. It would relate to any and all individuals.

Yes.

I agree agree. Gordon actually works a lot with the veterans Association. People returning injured from the war experiencing disabilities for the first time in trying to get those folks as independent in their homes in the workplace as they can be, besides working, now, with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

You also see people of all kinds -- all learners. I also think it comes to universal design. If an employer has lots of people that speak different languages, the video is showing you how to do something. The words over the top might not be as important, but you are going to have the workplace be more acceptable to all employees, not just those with disabilities of an employer decided something -- decided to use something like Show Me QR. They come along, scan that and it opens up a video of how something was safely done or how to handle this use of equipment. Not just the employee who experiences intellectual d isability. I agree with you, whoever made that comment.

The question is, is the iBeacon a Bluetooth?

Yes.

So, I guess I will carry on with that, the phone needs to be on Bluetooth as well as the iPad, whatever --

It does. Thank you for mentioning that. With Choice Works and visual schedule, Pictello, a person can be in a work environment where they do not have access to the Internet. And, they would be able to use those queuing systems. You could not use Show Me QR. Those videos are stored in the cloud. I have to

be able to get to the cloud. That's how I can also change them remotely, is because we are using the Internet. Thanks for nudging me to say that, whoever asked that question.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi?

Yes.

That's what you would need to have?

Yes.

Another question, how long does it take to train the consumer to use this? I guess that would depend on the consumer?

It does. Let's say you train someone who you Show Me QR code. Would you start with 10 different places that they had to scan everything?

No. I would start with one. Maybe it was just when they first arrived at work they scanned. Good morning, Tom. Start in the produce department. We'd like all the fruit nice and tidy. Whatever it is. You might start with one and add onto them. I want to show on the screen the little box with all of the green arrows and what Gordon has done, is an example of information on how to live independently. You can have QR codes in a variety of places in one environment. What I like about it is it can be in of right of places across an entire building or different buildings, to friend floors in the building. Things like that.

This is Gordon. He has lots of videos about how to put this together. He's also a great guy. You can call Gordon. He will get on the phone and talk you through how to use the product. He was set up an instant web meeting and jump on and show you. There's excellent customer service from best communication, who also makes the communication at -- app called talk tablet which rivals coloco to go and it's less than half the price.

Get in touch with Gordon if you are even thinking about it, I would say. It's well worth it. Cool product.

Let's look at some basic kind of scheduling apps. One is actually very robust. Others are simple. Visual planner is made by the same maker of visual schedule are HD, for what it's worth. It's kind of your all in one app with timers, schedulers, notes, photos, voice memos, videos and a calendar all-in-one. We will look at that. You have to have someone who can really handle all of those e lements. Oftentimes it might take you a couple of different apps to do what this one does. But, warning -- the more robust and map gets cop, more complex it is to use. I think it sometimes simpler to use two different simple apps. But, I want to show you this one. It certainly works for some people. It's a simple task queuing list, alarm, that list. I'm prepared to get very simple.

Let's take a look at those. Isn't this cool that I am able to do that? It's not difficult. Here is visual planner.

You can see that I have morning, afternoon and evening. I could also look at the schedule for the entire week or for an entire month. I can put notes in. I can have a check off list. I can also pull things in, such as videos and things like that. I can add something. I just put in what I want to title it.

Probably won't get all the way through doing this, but I just choose what time I want it start, when I wanted to end work.

Whatever it is, whether it repeats or not. I can have a reminder set up. I can have photos. It would go to the photo library. I never like to choose the icon library that comes built-in through the app. I can add sound, video clips, so forth.

There it is, it's one that just appeared. After I do it, I would check it o ff. This is a visual planner, nice, robust. I can do sharing of the file with others. I can use iTunes filesharing, that you can remotely do it. You would need Internet to do it. I had Aarons on their, I remember.

The question is, does it save from week to week? Or, to you have to replace it?

You can save and repeat or you can delete. To have that option. We are now in the errands. I can have lots of different list. We can pull in photos. It's small. I pulled in a picture of a person's dishwasher. Here, I can mail the task out to someone. I can duplicate it and repeat later on. Here's my alarm system that I can set up with it. Whatever day that I want. Set priority levels. I can decide that it's going to be every three days, it Federal.

Here is my editing. It has a little check off,'s when I've done it. It's small on your screen. I apologize. I can mail an entire folder to someone else, if I want to.

Here's different settings. Very easy to use. It's a simple picture checklist with alarms. It's cheap. I believe it was under $5. The price of apps changes and I believe it's based on how many people are purchasing it [Laughter] As to whether it it's more expensive or cheaper. That's errands and I want to show you, that list. -- pocket list.

They we go. So, I can have different -- overall files, this is the iPad cohort of things I have to do. As I check them off, it goes away and it's checked off. I can add new ones. Delete -- I can send, email, archive, duplicate an entire list. You cannot pull in photos with t his. You can have different icons. Looking at it related to a calendar and then I can have contact. Different people out of the contacts that I will share pocket lists with and that's what I think -- if the employment professional or employee or had it, they could share this kind of information back and forth with someone. So, streaming could be set up.

It's also cheap and easy to use.

Then, hitting real simple, I wanted to show you alarms. In alarms, you have timers, reminders, and if I started new one it's really easy to do. Set when I want that to be at what time I wanted to be. One of the things I like about alarms, is the different sounds. This is what my friend Colleen who experienced a disability is really like. Here are all the different sounds I can choose from. My friend Colleen can remember -- I can have tasks set with 12 different sounds and when she hears that sound she knows what task is associated with it. All she has to do is here that. [Alarm sound]

What works for my friend Colleen -- [Alarm sound] -- that's what really works for her, is all the different sounds. It's interesting. You check it off and it disappears. You can repeat on different days. It's a checklist.

Now, it's going to work for people who can read. But, my friend Colleen can read. She uses those sounds. It's really interesting.

Think I had I'm prepared on my list. I'm prepared is oftentimes free. I don't know if it's free right n ow. You can have a variety of different lists and you don't have to use the ones that are on here. Under my supply list, for instance, here's one that is about work or at the garden story. I just checked those off. It's really simple for lists.

It was created, obviously, for people to be ready for emergencies. When I look at it, it's very easy. You can name list whatever you want them to be. When it says adit the bottom, I started new list and I can call that whatever it is I wanted to be called. This is I'm prepared.

Let's look at a few of these. What I call self-management apps or things for people to think about how it is they are doing, managing their behavior and that sort of thing. Also, manage your own learning. We look at habits, goal tracker, goal streaks and time time or. Really different apps, based on the ability of the person.

Let's look at habits. I think some of these -- there's also a nap out there called -- and map called autism tracker or autism Pro. It's the same app as habits or habits Pro. It comes with built-in things that some people with autism might he working on. You can take a look at it in the apps story. I like the more generic one. I can have different categories of things I work on. Being social, living a healthy l ife. Let's look at work, for instant send maybe these are things I am working on at work. This wants to know the number of tables that I wiped down, so I can put that information in there. That is today, wanting to know the number of, says I have folded t oday. I can put that in and you can also put things in where you ask yes or no questions. Happy or sad questions. You can grab how you are doing and see with the job coach, you can sit down and look at the graph of how things are going. It takes away the -- kind of the -- I wanted to go back words. -- backwards.

Almost there, sorry sorry. I can also share the results with other people. I can look over the course of a d ay. I can look at them over the course of a week, et cetera. And, keep track of that and see how I am doing. You can set social goals, all kinds of goals. The number of times I made eye contact. Saying hello to Sally, and I can grasp how I'm doing with that.

It's very nice. What else did did you have fun there? I think I had goal streaks. Goal tracker and goal streaks. Habits Pro is $4.99 from what I pick up from my iPad. But, the I'm prepared is free.

Yeah. Thanks. I think it's great when I'm presenting of people are looking up and seeing what the current prices on things and then reporting to each other. Goal streaks, you said different types of goals that you are working on. Then, you just touch the days that you've achieved it and what you want, of course, is to get as many days in a row as you can. You can also look back, then. You can see how you've done. It's an opportunity to look for yourself, an opportunity to sit down with a coach or employer. People like to see those X appearing. It's very easy to do.

I just add a new one. Here's what I'm working on. Whatever it is, okay? The days I actually remember to eat almonds, okay.

I had goal tracker on there. This works for a lot of people. You can put a variety of things that a person might be working on and it could be around put it to the levels, social things at work. It can be around getting the numbers of something completed at work. You decide when that is done, I am going to take myself to red Robin after work on Friday if I've done this. The know with some people, you may have to start with a goal that can be reached over the course of one day and something that they give to themselves with the reward system for each day. I can decide on different things I want to put in the box that I have completed.

That would mean I've been nice today. I decided I had to share good i deas, work with each other. Some of my workshops.

See how the little red bar has moved across towards my goal? Can set up whatever the goal is and this is the goal for one of my in person trainings I was doing. I could put anything I wanted in there.

That's pretty funny. Okay. There it is. That's my goal. I want to get the red bar across to 100%. I think it's great when people filled this out themselves. It could be their boss or supervisor that fills this out for them. The number of people I work with with autism, having a goal was something that gets to occur, something that happens when I reached it is something that really works for them.

In that one -- it was goal tracker. To have anything else on that page, let me check?

Time time or.

Time time or, very different than the ones we've looked ve looked that work with more significant disabilities, they've used these actual tactile, realtime or, the time where you watch the piece of high disappear and I can have that for different activities I'm doing. As we know, for a lot of people who haven't experienced autism, to just say we are going to walk around the track or just say we are going to stack peas in canned food aisles, whatever it is, is way too general. Instead, say a specific number that we have to go around the track or the number of cans we have to s tack. Or, to say how long we have to do it work then, it gets black and white for people. Time time are also works that orks that way.

This one is counting down and I would know when I get to finish something.

We see your PowerPoint. It's covering up --

Thank you, guys.

Sorry about that.

I was looking at my iPad. By the way, there are several editions of time time and it ranges from $4.99 to $1.99.

Some people in the transition programs use Time Timer on a desk top computer, so they are used to it there of course, have had a literal ones on the handle they carry around instead of the ones in front of them that look like this. You can have as many different as you want. It's easy to set a new timer and name it and say what the duration is going to be, what color it is going to be.

Then, you just decide one that you want to play and there it goes. It starts clicking down. People who need a black-and-white way to know how long they do something for, or how to know when it's finished.

An easy thing to do and we forget to do it for people. [Laughter]

I want to start to look at this new area that I'm trying to focus on. It's ways in which people can be at their best at work. Ways to help them stay centered. I say, once you come up cross whatever the activities our vehicles are, and yes, it can be things -- by the way, if it's not something in the iPad that happens to be something they need to go outside and walk for a few minutes. When you are doing your choice, doing your Pictello, or whatever queuing system, make sure you go ahead and put those activities in their schedules they are going to help them get through their day and be productive and included and calm work there are also things in the iPad helpful sort -- for some people and I just learned about these apps through people who appreciated using them.

Doodle buddy and, it columns, it really just depends on the person. I don't people that it's going to to you to been watching the training videos. If they get to do that work it's being able to text with their

friend. It's a variety of different things. Some of these apps are very calming. Remember to build into their schedule.

Bloom, color dots, Doodle Buddy. You are going to help me remember, Maureen.

Okay. I have so many and I choose some -- his Bloom. -- here's Bloom.

I'm just touching the screen to make those. When I touch. The peer. -- see how it overlays what I'm doing? [Electronic chime sounds]

Kind of meditative. I could stay on that one too lung.

Let's look at Doodle Buddy.

Doodle Buddy also has some ways in which it's like Pen Ultimate. You can write on the screen. I can choose different kinds of paper backgrounds. That I would like. If I can remember how to get a new piece of paper. I just can't remember at this moment, how to do that.

I can put icons. I decided to put that on. I can choose a color that I want my text to be. You race or -- that's what I want. Right now, I'm using my fingers. I could use a stylus. If I did, I could write cursive, right? That do have the ability to send that. The ability to send this other places, as well. I can send it in an email. I can save it to photo album, post to Facebook, do a variety of t hings, as well. It has sounds associated with that. If I needed to write something to my off, or draw a picture that was meaningful, particularly, I could we were in the relaxation mode. There is a number of people that that ability to color and draw, it gives you that. I can save these and look back over time.

There are a number of people who use it just to relax. We use it on their break. Doodle Buddy.

Doodle Buddy is free and there is also a doodle jump that either can be free or $2.99. It looks like there are several versions of similar kinds of drawing or art kinds of apps that are available.

It can also do texting and typing. You can't do that with Pen U ltimate, by the way. Whatever it is that I want to say. I can do that, as well. It's great for drawing pictures, that people tend to like.

Think ahead pocket pond. I learned about this from a transition teacher who has a classroom of people who happen to experience autism. And, who like water. I think Pocket Pond is free.

[ Computer sounds ] it's a water game. It's going to take a minute. It's also very meditative. Come on Pocket Pond.

Keep your Koi healthy by feeding them to -- feeding them. Double tap the water to drop off food tell it work they make it over to the food pellet. [ Computer sounds ] they go after the first one I did. Great job. Hold down your finger and wait for them to nibble it. I'm holding my finger down. [ Computer sounds ] come on over. There they are nibbling.

See how this works. It gives you little things to do. It's a very simple water game. It has water sounds involved in it.

There was one more I was going to show you.

The Color Dots, Doodle Buddy? I did not do Color Dots.

The key in the game. [ Computer sounds ] I have to touch that as it floats by. I've got two, now. Not very complicated, but you see how it works. [ Computer sounds ] it's something to relax and do. It takes my attention onto something like that and also the anxiety of my work. My friend Colleen really likes little puzzles, African -- African plains. She relaxes, columns down. She was in a sheltered industry for many years but now, -- she got fired from sheltered industry and sat home for about five years. You just slide the pictures over.

Well done.

It's free, as well. [ Computer sounds ]

A few more minutes and I want to tell you a few things. People think they just put cameras in, that I can remotely watch and queue people. The number of employment agencies, one just recently from the East Coast calling me. We are getting cameras for all of our support employees and we will watch them. Wait, please don't do that for a variety of reasons. You want to make their coworkers steer away from them? Put a camera on them. [Laughter] You want to provide more sport to them anyway. Many things that are not good about it. If you want to be able to see what the person is doing and see their environment, try using face time or Skype. That will be your best option. Really think about that. It comes up a lot for me. Again, for people with significant disabilities, employment first state in Washington State, we are looking at employment for e verybody. Philip is a watch that up person just Weyers and it has a few simple things. If can get in touch with a few people that have been connect with that. It's a locator. You can locate someone within a building, within the house, or anywhere else in the environment. To know -- we want the person to know. The watch has that ability and I would know where they are. You can receive short text and people can call. It says when I would call someone wearing a Philip, if I'm a person connected with their Philip, it has a picture of me or it says Marsha on this green when I call in. These devices help family members to feel more comfortable and for people who have problems losing a device or something like that, it's tile. Anybody know about tile? It's about an inch and a half by an Internet half and very thin. It does have a whole on it. It was tile envisioned for people who always lose their car keys and you would clip it to the key ring and get onto your computer and see where your tile was. It will tell you specifically in your house or anywhere in the universe, where your tile is. Again, the tile could be in the back pack or pocket someone experiencing a disability. If it was someone who would sometimes walk off and get lost, and we work with job seekers like that, as well. Again, I would never want to put it tile in someone's, it without them knowing it or what was going on. But, it's making parents and guardians more comfortable and getting more people the option to be independent. People where the parents thought they needed to have someone have their eyeballs on them all the t ime. Something like tile present the option and I can see on my iPad where the child the tile lives. Therefore, where the person is.

Or, your car keys.

One comment, is tile and products like tile for people who have dogs who run away, or something. It's the same kind of notion. If I want to know where something is, I can look it up on my iPad and it will show me where that is. Be it an innate object, a person, any other kind of animal, whatever it is. It's locating stuff. There's a variety of them out t here. Tile is just one. Apple watchers are supposed to come out in January. How cool is that? Watch the video yourself. People can operate absent all kinds of things out of their Apple watch and do drawings back and forth to each other, really quickly, on their Apple watcher . For people who you lose their devices, something on their arm it's really cool. Double robot -- all it is, is the big wheel at the bottom that rolls around on all kinds of e nvironments. It didn't go downstairs, however. It just has and iPad that fits in the top. It could used by a job coach or employer to see the environment where the person is, or, thinking about this really differently, let's say I have a supported employee who was doing a type of work which could be done remotely. Because of medical issues, couldn't come to the work this all the time, or that sort of thing. It allows people to be present and it costs about $2000. You operated from either your iPad or a lap top -- whatever. It's an iPad stuck

in there that allows people to see you and for you to see the environment the person is in. I've operated one. We don't own one. I know an organization that does. It's not free difficult to do and this is the kind of robotics that are going to be coming at us. What so cool about this, is it's a n iPad.

Pretty cool.

Well, Marsha, I think you have a couple of more slides, still?

Just going to talk about how I've been involved with organizations, about learning to use the iPad in relation to work support. I've done some learning cohorts where organizations identify a person or two within their organization who will be the go to person or how to use the iPad in the facility workplace. It's not as if everybody in the organization has to constantly be getting information on this. The go to person is who the other employment specialist comes to when they have questions. If you have six or 12 different organizations, they send their identified people that come together and be a learning cohort and meet regularly, over time. I've done this remotely. Also, in person. It's the sort of thing that any community -- any community could set up and say, okay, with got my support meant -- support organizations in this area. They each identify a person or two to learn more about the iPad. The come together over time and go back to the organization and be the in house people, that the other staff would come to. That's essentially how that works.

While ski. I mention. I hate to say this. We've run out of time. I know that people do have your contact information. We will send you information as they experience -- trying the new apps and things you've given them. I want to remind everyone on today's webinar that you will receive any mail with an evaluation survey link for this session. Once you've completed the online survey, your certificate of completion will be uploaded to the portal on the website. Also, UNT Wise offers the credits, as usual. This has been a wonderful session. One last comment from a student, I think we could all use more relaxation apps in our workplace. [Laughter]

I have a yoga app on mine.

Okay. This has been awesome. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it and appreciate the attention of all participants. I hope you all have a very positive experience. Again, most of these applications can be used on any of the Android or smartphones that you have. If you have a question, do not hesitate to send an email to Marsha @go-live.org or myself, Noreen.gill at UNT.edu and we be happy to help out when we can.

You all have a great day.

Thank you.

Thanks, Marsha. Have a good one.

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