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Summer Job Story for transition age youth who have autism spectrum disorder and are considered high functioning.

Award Number: 90BISA0055
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
OPDIV: ACL
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

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Summer Job Story for transition age youth who have autism spectrum disorder and are considered high functioning. - The goal of this Phase I SBIR project is (1) to determine the feasibility of using an Animated Spoken Interactive Fiction (AIF) story to help young (14-16 years) high school high functioning students with autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD) practice pre-employment transition skills (pre-ETS) to obtain a summer job, and (2) to provide information to their teacher to deliver more targeted instruction thereby using instructional time more efficiently. Our objectives include: (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. 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 intended outcome of this Phase I project is that the HF-ASD student will find this intervention acceptable and useful, and we will measure this outcome through administering surveys to the student and their teacher. The expected product is a system that students use under teacher guidance, to help the student obtain and maintain summer employment by mastering many pre-ETS skills.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2022	OBJECTIVE ED, INC.	15355 TAKE OFF PL	ROYAL PALM BEACH	FL	33414	PALM BEACH	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	04	1	10/23/2024	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2022	OBJECTIVE ED, INC.	15355 TAKE OFF PL	ROYAL PALM BEACH	FL	33414	PALM BEACH	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	03	1	6/21/2023	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2023	2022	OBJECTIVE ED INC	15355 Take Off Place	Wellington	FL	33414	PALM BEACH	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	01	1	12/7/2022	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
2023	2022	OBJECTIVE ED INC	15355 TAKE OFF PL	ROYAL PALM BEACH	FL	33414	PALM BEACH	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	02	1	2/1/2023	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $99,740 )
2022	2022	OBJECTIVE ED INC	15355 Take Off Place	Wellington	FL	33414	PALM BEACH	USA	ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research	00	1	5/31/2022	NEW	$99,740
														Subtotal = $99,740

Grand Total All Awards = $99,740

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Summer Job Story for transition age youth who have autism spectrum disorder and are considered high functioning.

Award Number: 90BISA0055

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH

OPDIV: ACL

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

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