Earlier this week was the last time. not exactly amazed, but utterly impressed it works.
Via college, my 17 year old daughter with ASD now has an app called ‘Brain in Hand’. We’d heard about it through her previous school so were quite excited to actually gat funds to get it for her.
Essentially it’s a ‘how do you feel today’ app, with some scenarios in there, like ‘my bus is late’ and potential solutions. all of which are backed by a traffic light system. This is great as it means she can self manage, not have to text us ever time or rely in college services and gives her a better sense of independence (the important bit).
It also asks you to check in how you’re feeling (green, amber or red) every hour or so.
What we didn’t realise is that the traffic light system is backed up by on call councilling service. So, when things were a bit stressful earlier in the week, she was feeling amber. after three ambers she immediately gets a text, asking if everything is ok. She texts back thinking it’s an automated reply and gets a human response and a few tips on ow to manage and guide her to feeling better.
Yesterday was a rubbish day, she pressed red and got a text asking if they could call her and she could speak. she couldn’t, but they talked her through how she was feeling via text and get her to a place where she could manage to get on the bus home, and checked in with her that she’d made it.
There are two things that are just damn awesome about this, the first is the service itself, the second is that my daughter has adoped it very naturally.
very very cool.