High Lighters Color coded activities or assignments can be easier to mange. $1.00
Color Coded Index Cards Use color coded cards to keep tasks or jobs separated. It helps avoid confusion. $1.00
Personal Organizers Organizers can be electronic, hand-held, PC based, or on paper, depending on the users need. Personal organizers can keep track of appointments, due dates, calls, expenses, etc. $20.00 & up.
Step-by-Step Communicator This unique communication aid can record a series of messages up to 75 seconds in length. Easy switch access lets a worker access each message in sequence to give a series of instructions, ask a series of questions, provide steps in a recipe or express a single message in a variety of ways. $140.00
Tape Recorder Put resource materials and manuals on tape or CD. It makes them much easier to reference for people who have difficulty reading instructions. $20.00
Quarter Hour Watch This time aid does not show the actual time. It shows the time remaining until the next event starts with each quarter hour represented by a circle. The picture to the right shows that there are two quarters or an hour left until it's time to catch the bus. $400.00
Word Prediction Word Prediction is a useful tool for people who have problems constructing words and sentences. The software suggests words based on the word that the user types and the previous few words. The words are displayed in order of probability, based on the users own vocabulary. $200/700.00
IntelliKeys This flexible keyboard meets a wide variety of needs. A user can change the way IntelliKeys looks and functions by simply sliding in a different overlay. Each of the standard overlays has a bar code that is instantly recognized by IntelliKeys, so no previous "set up" is necessary. The keyboard can be further modified for additional products. (Mac, PC) $200.00

Even MORE Ideas...

• Post an outline of daily jobs. Use symbols, pictures or maps to reinforce or even replace words.
• Arrange materials in the order the user uses them.
• Establish clear guidelines.
• Simplify and reduce the number of choices a person needs to make.
• Break tasks into smaller and clear steps.
• Reduce environmental clutter.
• Teach the task where the person will perform it.
• Attach keys to a bungee cord and hook it to a wrist or belt loop.
• Color code like items.
• Write the next day's tasks the night before.
• Audio tape job assignments.
• Have positive progress meetings, log activities and use timetables.
• Establish routines.
• Anticipate crisis and plan to deal with them.
• Schedule more difficult tasks when the workers energy is high.

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