SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development and Evaluation of a Universally Designed Multimedia Approach to Enable Autonomous Composition by Students and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Award amount
$75,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ABLELINK TECHNOLOGIES INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HP51NPWGBEU1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The project addresses the needs of students and adults with intellectual disabilities forwritten self-expression by designing, developing, and testing a universally designed, multimediacompositioning software application. This application creates a specific format for independent expressionof thoughts, ideas, experiences, knowledge, personal history, and other typical literary output. Thesystem provides an automated interface to a simplified process for recording, saving, organizing,retrieving, and distributing user-authored multimedia documents. The resulting new technology providesthe benefits of independent self-expression and preservation of compositions in multimediadocuments for peer and future consumption.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Enabling self-reported outcomes for youth with developmental disabilities: The PediatricEvaluation of Disability Inventory - Patient Reported Outcome (PEDI-PRO) - Phase II
- Designing and Evaluating Outcome Assessment Software for Youth with Developmental Disabilities: The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory- Patient Reported Outcome (PEDI-PRO)
- Digital Storyteller: A Cognitively Accessible Literary Compositioning Tool
- TWYLA (Test What You Learned - Assessment): A Cloud-Based Cognitively Accessible Testing Extender For Special Needs Learning Apps
- Development and Evaluation of a Cognitively Accessible App to Facilitate Social Networking for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2020). Reported award amounts total $10,641,713. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense