Everyday Skills

Everyday Skills was designed to be an educational software package that aims to provide support for the teaching of everyday skills and activities.

Everyday Skills provide two modes of operation. These are Step By Step mode and What’s Right mode and they both support switch access of up to two switches.

In Step By Step mode, an activity (i.e. a particular task) is presented as a sequence of steps.  Each step has a visual image, sound and/or spoken commentary.  The end user is thus presented with a sequence of steps to complete a particular task – movement from one step to the next is under this user’s control.  The activities can be customised for the ends user in the sense that the precise set of steps can be selected for a given user and the presentation of the steps (visual and audio style) can be controlled.

The What’s Right mode is an interactive program that allows the end user to make choices.  The end user is presented with two images (side by side) and he/she has to select the most meaningful in the context of a particular activity to get a reward.

Everyday Skills was designed to support class environments and offers configuration dialogs for creating classes, adding students to classes and assigning activities to students. These dialogs are available from the Parents and Teacher Zone discussed later.