Brain Injury Services Assistive Technology

Step-by-Step is a visual aide to help guide children through complex tasks. The complex sequence becomes just a few small, straightforward steps. By working through the small steps with visual reminders the learner chains small steps into complex routines.

$2.99

With Situation SHUFFLE, all you've got to do is arrange a set of images in the right sequence. Any set of images within Situation SHUFFLE can be based on a wide variety of places, things and situations – meaning that you never get bored as you try to solve problem after problem.

$0.99

- 30 IQ quizzes, 30 extra quizzes and 6 SHUFFLE quizzes- Tests that develop critical thinking skills- Option of conveniently zooming on pictures to observe details- Handy hints for guidance- Exciting music and sound effects- Suitable for all age groups

$1.99

The performance assistant view intuitively visualizes the remaining and elapsed time, both for the current section and the whole performance. Elapsed time is depicted in red, remaining time in green. An inner disc represents the used and remaining time for the current section. The section title is displayed in the center. An outer ring represents the used and remaining time for the whole performance. The segments of the ring represent the individual sections

Alarm Option: Optionally you can set an alarm at the end of each section. If set a short tick sound will signal the end of a section

So, we are proudly providing five useful tools for them to communicate through pictures:

1. Visual Cue: prompt using pictures Show the picture of destination rather than repeatedly saying “We are going to go to the school.” Their concern might be coming from uncertainty of where they are going. Usually general noun is hard to remind them the real destination. Temple Grandin said one day, when she heard a word “church” it reminds her a lot of various real pictures of churches. Just show them the exact image for the next thing, no worries about verbal learning. “Visual Cue” supports playing a recorded sound of the destination as well. 2. First ~ Then: simple cause and result Let them know what’s going to happen after they accomplish one thing using a sequential picture though “First ~ Then.” You can show the first image as a condition to have the second one. For example, show picture of wash hands at first then show their favorite snack. It makes them understand clearly what they need to do for the compensation as a contingency. 3. Which One? Dude, we are living in the lots of choice! Give them a choice via pictures. You can show them as many as 4 pictures to choose from. If they are non-verbal then it is hard to know what they want or where they want to go, etc. You can show them a few pictures of places, food, objects, even photos of friends. Suddenly they are happy to get the freedom of choice and it makes your life easier by seamless communication. 4. Count Up: another token system with rewarding animation and sound Do you want to encourage a good behavior by visual cue framework? You can add a star by tapping and give an interesting reward when predefined number of stars has reached. 5. Count Down: a time keeper for transition Hard time at transition? This count down tool will remind them how much time they have left until they need to stop playing or to go home. You can count it down by tapping manually until 0. 6. Visual Scheduler: a guide map for visual thinkers Not enough with a couple of pictures? You can make a story line of what to do or what’s going on in the next couple of hours or even for days. Create a series of activities for your kids to make it clear what to expect next in a structured way. This tool provides an easier way to add, remove, change the sequence in order to maximize flexibility. 7. Visual Timer: Progressive image with timer You can choose your favorite image as a timer background, it also supports alarm. *** We don’t provide stock images but give you many choice to build your own library such as take a photo, add a image from photo album, or download from internet.

Teach story sequencing or help children master steps for completing a task. Making Sequences includes 15 photo sequences for teaching story order. Use these or upload your own images, add voice recordings and share them with others using Dropbox. Teach personalized daily living skills or have fun teaching kids to sequence stories starring themselves. Also great for making short social stories.

$4.99

Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment Survey

This tool helps would-be entrepreneurs gauge how well self-employment may work for them.

Here we investigate whether cueing can serve a more general purpose—not in reminding us of a particular event or action, but in helping us to periodically take a more “executive” stance to our activities.

Seven patients with right hemisphere stroke and who experienced difficulties in maintaining attention completed the task under two conditions. Periodic auditory cues that carried no content other than by association with the patient's remembered goal and which had no predictive value for events in the task were, nevertheless, associated with significant improvements in accuracy compared with an un-cued condition.

We speculate that the transient hiatus in responses observed immediately following a cue serves a role in disrupting automatic, stimulus-driven responding and allows a more attentive stance to be re-established.

With her RWJF grant, a Community Health Leader funds an online program that brings brain injury survivors together despite distances and disabilities.

Rooker and her husband, Greg, founded The Jason Foundation to provide education, support, resources, and funds to brain injury survivors and their families, and to promote the establishment of more community-based services for them. Then in July 2001, the foundation funded the establishment of Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia (BISSWVA), to develop and provide such services.