Take on Training with Attainment: A Video Training App to Foster Independence at Work for Individuals with Intellectual Disability

This project researches and develops a mobile application (app), Take on Training, to provide direct services workers (DSWs), including job coaches, with on-demand instruction by way of short vignettes to promote the maximum level of independence for people with disabilities at work. Objectives for this Phase II project are to produce a commercially available, mobile, cross-platform app for job coaches with a complementary app for workers with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) accompanied by a national network of job coach expertise. This project conducts a single subject protocol with an early beta version of the app in Year One, and a longitudinal-repeated measure randomized control design protocol with multiple subjects using a full beta version of the app in Year Two. The Take on Training app is anticipated to impact more than 50,000 job coaches and workers with IDD, optimizing the maximum level of independent employment for individuals with disabilities.