Assistive technology products and community programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Every listing is researched and verified.
AbleLink Technologies
Research-based visual and auditory prompting system that guides individuals with cognitive disabilities through multi-step tasks for employment, education, and independent living.
Goally
Dedicated tablet-based system with visual schedules, routines, and task management designed by behavioral therapists to build independence for individuals with autism and IDD.
AbleLink Technologies
GPS-based travel training app that guides individuals with intellectual disabilities safely through community travel with step-by-step visual and audio directions.
CreateAbility
A task prompting app that delivers personalized daily instructions through audio, pictures, or video. MeMinder includes a library of over 200 pre-built tasks for work and daily living, plus a caregiver dashboard so job coaches can monitor progress and customize new tasks remotely.
CreateAbility
A workplace version of CreateAbility's MeMinder platform, rebuilt for vocational rehabilitation professionals and job coaches. The Employment Suite provides customized task prompting and scheduling for supported employees, with a dashboard designed for managing multiple workers across job sites.
Neil Squire Society
A free photo-based task management app that breaks activities into step-by-step picture sequences. CanPlan is especially helpful for people who need visual guides to complete work tasks, household routines, or job training steps independently.
MapHabit
A visual mapping system that transforms complex activities into manageable step-by-step guides using audio, pictures, and video. MapHabit was designed specifically for people with intellectual disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and autism, and includes over 1,000 pre-built activity maps.
AbleLink Technologies
A task guidance and scheduling app from AbleLink's Smart Living Service, designed for people with cognitive disabilities. Endeavor provides time-based reminders, to-do lists, and step-by-step visual instructions for work and daily living tasks, with ongoing training and support from AbleLink staff.
WillowTree
A free communication app that lets people speak using head movements tracked by the device camera, with no special hardware needed. Vocable is useful for workers who cannot speak or use their hands, offering preset workplace phrases and a typing mode with text-to-speech in over a dozen languages.
Digital Scribbler
An affordable AAC app with over 11,000 symbols and 50 high-quality voices, designed for fast and flexible communication. Quick Talk keeps things simple with easy Yes/No access from every screen and the ability to create unlimited personalized profiles for different work and social settings.
Time Timer LLC
A wearable visual timer watch that shows time remaining as a colored disk that shrinks as minutes pass. The Time Timer Watch helps workers stay on schedule with a glanceable, distraction-free display. It includes clock, alarm, and visual timer modes, and operates silently with an optional vibration alert.
Circa Tempus
A vibrating reminder watch with 8 daily alarms that can alert by vibration, sound, or both. The VibraLITE 8 is a trusted tool for workers who need discreet schedule reminders for breaks, medication, task transitions, or clocking in and out, without disrupting the workplace.
Tiimo
A visual daily planner app built by and for neurodivergent people, featuring color-coded schedules, countdown timers, and AI-powered task breakdown. Tiimo helps workers organize their day with drag-and-drop planning, focus timers, and to-do lists designed to reduce planning anxiety.
Thruday
A free visual daily planner with scheduling, reminders, to-do lists, and mood tracking, designed for people with ADHD, autism, or executive functioning challenges. Thruday lets caregivers or job coaches be invited as assistants to help with daily planning and see mood changes in real time.
Time Timer LLC
The mobile version of the Time Timer visual countdown, available on phones and tablets. The app lets workers set multiple visual timers for different tasks, breaks, or meetings, with a clean interface that shows time remaining as a shrinking colored disk.
Moovit (Intel)
A free transit navigation app with built-in accessibility features, including live audio navigation that announces when to board, transfer, and exit. Moovit has been adopted by developmental disability agencies in Toronto for travel training, with clear step-by-step directions designed to help riders with cognitive disabilities travel independently.
The Conover Company
A research-based online system for assessing and teaching workplace social skills, including modules on interpersonal skills, controlling emotions, responding to conflict, teamwork, and professionalism. Conover uses over 750 short videos with audio read-aloud to make lessons accessible for learners with varying abilities.
Do2Learn
A free web-based employment training program that guides people through career exploration, job searching, interviewing, and keeping a job. JobTIPS uses video models, printable scripts, social narratives, and step-by-step instructions with icons to help people with autism and learning differences navigate workplace expectations.
AbleLink Technologies
A web-based career assessment tool that gives people with cognitive disabilities a voice in choosing their own career path. JobQuest presents 12 job categories through video clips of real workers, gathering preference data in real time to help counselors and families plan meaningful next steps in the job search.
CreateAbility
A career exploration and discovery tool that helps people with intellectual disabilities identify job interests and strengths through accessible, visual assessments. Employment Pathfinder generates detailed reports that vocational counselors can use to match individuals with suitable job opportunities.
Texthelp
A literacy support toolbar that helps employees read, write, and understand digital text at work. Read&Write provides text-to-speech, word prediction, a picture dictionary, and text simplification tools, all integrated directly into Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and web browsers.
Kurzweil Education
A comprehensive reading, writing, and study skills software that makes text-heavy work tasks accessible. Kurzweil 3000 reads documents aloud, provides word prediction, built-in dictionaries, and writing templates, helping employees who struggle with reading or writing to work more independently with digital documents.
NaturalSoft
A text-to-speech tool that reads documents, emails, and web pages aloud using natural-sounding AI voices. NaturalReader is available as a web app, desktop software, Chrome extension, and mobile app, making it a flexible option for workers who need reading support across different devices and platforms.
Good Karma Applications
A customizable visual schedule app that provides multiple calendar views, checklists, notes, and timers tailored to individual needs. The app supports fading images into words over time to build reading skills, and can link to video models for each task step, making it useful for learning new job routines.
CreateAbility
An employee satisfaction measurement tool designed for supported employment programs. Evalu8Now helps organizations check in with workers about their job satisfaction and relationships with coaches, shifting from reactive problem-solving to proactive support that improves long-term job retention.
Circa Tempus
A compact vibrating reminder watch with a smaller, more discreet design than the VibraLITE 8. The Mini model offers multiple daily alarms via vibration or sound, in a lightweight watch that blends in at any workplace and helps workers stay on schedule for breaks, tasks, and medication.
CreateAbility
An Apple Watch companion app for MeMinder that delivers task prompts directly to the wrist. MeMinder Watch is designed for workers who cannot carry a phone on the job, providing hands-free audio and visual reminders for task transitions, break times, and scheduled activities throughout the work day.
Digital Scribbler
An AI-powered communication tool from Digital Scribbler that combines traditional AAC features with artificial intelligence for faster, more natural conversations. Quick Talk AI helps workers communicate more efficiently by predicting responses and learning communication patterns over time.