{"id":195,"date":"2013-09-17T12:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T14:41:30","slug":"pros-cons-autism-alert-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/2013\/09\/17\/pros-cons-autism-alert-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros and cons of autism alert cards and travel cards"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meeting Date:<\/strong> Monday 16 September 2013 The Adult Autism Team kindly arranged for me to meet a woman with extensive experience of working in peer support in autism.<\/p>\n Even in the short time since starting this project what has become painfully evident is the current relative lack of research\/support techniques for adults<\/em> on the autistic spectrum, most projects focus on children.<\/p>\n “Do we disappear when we hit 18?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But we do get some incredibly useful insights via anecdotal reports.<\/p>\n Here’s an example of the Strathclyde Autism Alert Card<\/a>. All these kind of details are very useful to me as I look for ways of supplementing these kind of cards. If you know of more pros or cons of these existing cards please leave a reply<\/a> in the comments or <\/span>contact me<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Some people qualify for free travel due to their disability. In Glasgow there’s one issue on buses where the recent introduction of technology is currently having a negative effect on some autistic people. In the past what would happen is you would just hold the card up to the driver and board the vehicle. Now that there’s electronic versions of these cards the user has to<\/span><\/p>\n Some autistic people find bus travel difficult in general,<\/p>\n So for people with these kind of difficulties they can already be pretty stressed even before<\/em> they step onto the bus. It’s “say\u00a0to the driver their destination stop” \u00a0that is causing a problem. For those with difficulty with verbal communication they may be unable or too stressed and unwilling to speak which means they run into problems simply trying to board a bus successfully. Some have stopped even trying to travel this way which leads to mobility problems reaching appointments elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n What would be useful is a way for a person to present the destination to the driver without needing to speak<\/strong>, possible approaches may be<\/p>\n With synthetic speech it’s important that the ‘voice’ shouldn’t lead to the person being ridiculed in public.<\/span> Gender\u00a0<\/strong>is also important, most people would probably prefer that their synthetic voice was male or female as appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n Ideally it would be good if any synthetic voice had a <\/span>Scottish or local<\/em> accent<\/strong>, some people who have already tried assistive devices refuse to use devices with American or English (e.g. London <\/span>RP<\/a>) accents as they don’t like the sound of the voice.<\/span><\/p>\n In some cases people may be able to prerecord audio of\u00a0themselves or others pronouncing destinations so look for tools that can support this.<\/p>\n Post updated \u00a019th September 2013, see the following How tos for examples of apps that might help with this.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meeting Date: Monday 16 September 2013 Location: Glasgow office of the Adult Autism Team The Adult Autism Team kindly arranged for me to meet a woman with extensive experience of working in peer support in autism. Even in the short time since starting this project what has become painfully evident is the current relative lack … Continue reading “Pros and cons of autism alert cards and travel cards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[9751,7283],"tags":[10010,10014,10015,10013,10016,10003,10012,10011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLocation:<\/strong> Glasgow office of the Adult Autism Team<\/a><\/p>\nAutism Alert Cards<\/h2>\n
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Travel cards – Glasgow buses<\/h2>\n
\nFree bus travel for people aged 60+ or those with a disability<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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