Configuring an iPhone for special needs users - the summary table
I ' ve been using Facebook to share my book work (still ongoing!). It has limitations though so sharing today ' s update here.SettingRecommendedWiFiTurn “Ask to Join Networks” Off to reduce noisy prompts. I dislike the way Apple does automatic WiFi connections, but if you turn WiFi off completely location finding becomes less accurate. So leave WiFi on.BluetoothOff to simplify use until neededCellularSee “Controlling data use”, aboveNotificationsAMBER alerts may be upsetting and are certainly disruptive. Turn them off. Emergency Alerts are much less frequent and may be valuable in tornado country. Application Notif...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - May 21, 2017 Category: Disability Tags: smartphone4all Source Type: blogs
Configuring an iPhone for special needs users - the summary table
I ' ve been using Facebook to share my book work (still ongoing!). It has limitations though so sharing today ' s update here. Apologies for the formatting ...SettingRecommendedWiFiOff to reduce noisy prompts. I dislike the way Apple does WiFi connections, but if you turn WiFi off completely location finding becomes less accurate. So leave it on.BluetoothOff to simplify use until neededCellularSee “Controlling data use”, aboveNotificationsAMBER alerts may be upsetting and are certainly disruptive. Turn them off. Emergency Alerts are much less frequent and may be valuable in tornado country. Application Notifications ar...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - May 21, 2017 Category: Disability Tags: smartphone4all Source Type: blogs
Autism - updating my thinking
This blog is about two very different people with atypical minds connected by family. One is now an adult, the other is almost there. I call them #1 and #2.#1 wants to be independent. He does less with me now, and more on his own. That ’s a sad thing for me, but I’m hardly the first father to miss time with an adult son. #2, at the moment, wants Dad time even as he takes on new things that test his limits. Things like joining a neurotypical high school mountain biking team [1].Seeing him in that setting I have more insight into how his world looks. When he ’s stressed I see him move into a mode where the world fades ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - October 5, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adult Asperger ' athletics autism community exercise Source Type: blogs
Smartphones for all: Restriction apps update
I reviewed the world of Android and iPhone restrictions for mySmartphones for All book in May 2016:Gordon ’s Tech: Android restriction (parental control) solutions: Screen Time and MMGuardian advance to next step (MMGuardian, Funamo, AppLock, Kids Place, Screen Time, Net Nanny, Norton Family) 5/2016Gordon ’s Tech: Android restriction (parental control) solutions: Screen Time and MMGuardian advance to next step 5/2016Be the Best You Can Be: MMGuardian - Review of an iPhone parental control and usage monitoring service 5/2016Be the Best You Can Be: MMGuardian - review of an Android parental control and usage monitorin...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - September 23, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: smartphone smartphone4all Source Type: blogs
Smartphones for all: Restriction apps update
I reviewed the world of Android and iPhone restrictions for mySmartphones for All book in May 2016:Gordon ’s Tech: Android restriction (parental control) solutions: Screen Time and MMGuardian advance to next step (MMGuardian, Funamo, AppLock, Kids Place, Screen Time, Net Nanny, Norton Family) 5/2016Gordon ’s Tech: Android restriction (parental control) solutions: Screen Time and MMGuardian advance to next step 5/2016Be the Best You Can Be: MMGuardian - Review of an iPhone parental control and usage monitoring service 5/2016Be the Best You Can Be: MMGuardian - review of an Android parental control and usage monitorin...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - September 23, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: smartphone smartphone4all Source Type: blogs
Employment - not.
Almost 4 months ago #1 accepted a mainstream (unsupported) hardware job that sounded just about perfect. Two days ago, returning from a 1 week family holiday, he quit. Without notice. He gave us no real warning, and, not atypically, disregarded our strenuous advice. In follow-up we hear he was doing the job well enough, his supervisor was surprised he quit. And annoyed he quit without notice. #1 has had various explanations for why he left. I doubt he knows. The one he currently favors is that the work wasn ’t interesting enough — he was doing grounds maintenance and he wanted to work with machinery. In our own pos...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - August 25, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: ADHD adult cognitive impairment employment Explosive Child school Source Type: blogs
The dream job scam - schools are doing us no favors
Sometime in the past decade or two US schools were infected with a “you can do what you dream” meme.This made some sense for cohorts oppressed by poverty and racism. It makes less sense for privileged whites where employment is constrained more by native abilities than environmental constraints. It makes no sense at all for the special needs cognitively disabled population. In fact, it ’s malignant.Throughout his school life #1 ’s IEP’s featured his “dream job”. Often this was K-9 training officer. A job he did not have a snowball in hell chance of getting. My childhood dream job was to be an astronaut — ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - August 25, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: culture education employment Source Type: blogs
Exercising with autism: working within the energy budget
A post aboutenergy levels and autism activity reminded me how #2 has managed his mountain biking team participation.He is one of the more consistent attendees of practices, but he doesn ’t do a full practice. He started out doing about half a practice. Over time that’s edged up to perhaps 2/3 of a practice. He goes at a pace that feels very slow to a near 60yo father/coach — but he goes.His consistency is remarkable. It ’s the same with inline skating. He shows up. He goes at his own pace. He does it.He is almost always limited by his “emotional energy”, not his lungs and muscles. He loves to talk to me while ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - August 10, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' autism exercise Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing one Asperger's athlete
Both #1 and #2 are physically active. This is very much by design and lifelong persistence. #1 often enjoys team sports and personal bicycling, but these activities are also agitating, disturbing, and anxiety provoking. He ’s very sensitive to criticism, very insensitive to advice and feedback, and by nature macho and blunt. That is a hard combination, but #2 is harder. I think #2 may be more typical of the active Asperger’s athlete.#2 does not like exercise. He does it because it helps him psychologically as well as physically and because he wants to please me. I encourage it because it ’s critical to his mental h...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - July 18, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' exercise sport Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing one Asperger's athlete
< p > Both #1 and #2 are physically active. This is very much by design and lifelong persistence. #1 often enjoys team sports and personal bicycling, but these activities are also agitating, disturbing, and anxiety provoking. He ’s very sensitive to criticism, very insensitive to advice and feedback, and by nature macho and blunt. That is a hard combination, but #2 is harder. I think #2 may be more typical of the active Asperger’s athlete. < /p > < p > #2 does not like exercise. He does it because it helps him psychologically as well as physically and because he wants to please me. I encourage it because it ’s crit...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - July 18, 2016 Category: Disability Tags: adolescence Asperger ' exercise sport Source Type: blogs
