Question

An adult with a developmental disability works at a local product fulfillment and distribution center. She takes the bus to get to/from work each day. She is already using a prompting/cueing app on her smartphone to support her when taking the bus. However, on occasion, she gets off at the wrong bus stop and is having problems getting to the right destination (i.e. she has difficulty re-routing herself). Which feature should the interprofessional team consider adding to her smartphone in order to address this issue?

Answer 1

Answer: Tracking and identification.

Explanation: In other ease the woes and stress of such individual, integrating a tracking and identification capability on her app will be of great help. This will ensure that she could be easily and effectively located by leveraging the ability of the geographic positioning system in other to correctly get and know are current location. With these she could be picked easily when issues of drops off at the wrong location. Trackers allows one to determine the current location of items or individuals in which the tracking devices are placed on. As it also gives signals when one gets to the current position of the item or individual for proper identification. With these locating her will become very easy and hassle free during instances of wrong drop off.