Financial Fitness Adventures for Students with a Vision Impairment.

The goal of this project is (1) to determine the feasibility of using an Accessible Interactive Fiction (AIF) story to help high school students (ages 14-18) with visual disabilities (VI) to practice and improve their understanding of one financial literacy concept (specifically creating and using a Spending Plan) and (2) to enable their teachers to use instructional time more efficiently by delivering more targeted instruction. Project objectives include: (1) defining the requirements for the My Spending Plan AIF story within Financial Fitness Adventures (FFA); (2) developing a computer-based AIF story; (3) building a prototype web service to capture the VI student�s progress and to display it in a dashboard for the teacher; and (4) achieving a 15% improvement in financial literacy test scores among students to prove the system�s acceptability and effectiveness. The intended outcome of this project is to achieve the VI students� acceptance of this intervention as an engaging and useful way of learning the financial concept, as measured through surveys to the VI students and their teacher, leading to a financial literacy skills training system for VI students to use under teacher guidance.