A Personal Digital Assistant, a PDA, is a device that functions as a personal information manager and can be helpful for people with short or long term memory issues or other cognitive issues. The AbleLink Pocket Endeavor Suite is a software interface that is designed specifically for people who need cognitive support. It’s user-friendly and simpler than traditional PDA operating systems.
The Pocket Endeavor is useful to help remember schedules, for example, when to take medicine and other reminders. Reminders are auditory and visual. A picture and voice message is associated with each item on the calendar. When it’s time for the reminder, the picture automatically fills the screen and the auditory cue sounds.
It can provide cues that help complete step by step daily tasks like making coffee or getting dressed. Users can also make “to do” lists with the Pocket Endeavor. Users can speak into the device and say something like, “Pick up the dry cleaning” and it will be recorded. It’s easy to play it back and delete the recording after it’s been completed.
Using different organization systems can sometimes be a process of organization within itself. If you are keeping track of lists on notebook paper, notes in your cell phone, sticky notes, calendars and trying to remember things on your own, it could get confusing. A PDA and the Pocket Endeavor Suite from AbleLink may be the solution to your organization problems.
The Pocket Endeavor Suite can also be upgraded to use on your cell phone with the Pocket Endeavor Suite – Phone Edition.
AbleLink Technologies aims to use research to create practical useful solutions for people with cognitive disabilities. AbleLink Technologies’ innovations represent a “new class of empowering technology characterized by a person-centered design philosophy that results in making everyday technologies such as phones, computers, and PDA’s accessible to people with cognitive barriers.”