SmartHome Residents Testing Prompting Systems

Several residents of Imagine!'s Bob and Judy SmartHome (and others served by Imagine!) are helping to test some task prompting systems that may assist individuals with developmental disabilities in gaining and keeping meaningful employment. The residents have teamed with the engineering team at Assistive Technology Partners (AT Partners) to test an innovative project funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) as part of the RERC-Workplace Accommodations Grant. This project is exploring the use of two different task prompting systems that could aid an individual with a disability in successfully performing assembly line tasks. Task prompting is similar to creating a check list to make sure the proper steps are being performed in the correct order for a given task. In this video, Michael Melonis from AT Partners and Dr. Alex Mihailidis from the University of Toronto explain the process in further detail.



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