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Technology For Your Recovery Journey

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• Rejection of an identity/role as a life-long “mental patient”

• “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.” (SAMSHA)

What is Recovery?

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What Is Assistive Technology?

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Focus on Function

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Not on Fixing

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What is Neurodiversity?

Areas Covered

• Stress, PTSD, Mood apps

• Memory tools

• Task Management and Completion

• Getting Help

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Smart Phone, iPod and Tablet Applications

Tools for Mood, Anxiety and Stress

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• From Veteran's Administration.

• App: PTSD Coach

• Available for both Android and Apple (iOS) devices

Apps for PTSD

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• Can customize based on self-assessment

• Can set up phone numbers to call for support.

• Can indicate favorites in manage symptoms.

• Has a chart to track symptoms

PTSD Coach

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PTSD Coach Symptom Management

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• Guided relaxation breathing

• Personalize a bit with music and image, rate of breathing.

• Can chart stress/relaxation

Breath & Relax

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• Self-Monitor, track and references emotional experiences

• Can make notes about what’s happening at the time the mood is experienced.

T2 Mood Tracker

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• Cognitive Behavior Therapy

• The referee is a hat you wear, you put on your referee hat and evaluate the thought from a completely neutral point of view

“Stinking Thinking”

Task Completion

• Getting started

• Can’t concentrate or stay focused

• Remembering all the steps in a task

• Just too much to do!

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Check it off the list

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Alarms and Timers to Help with Focus

Stay on Task App• It checks up on you to

make sure you're doing your work and not loafing. (Can set to vibrate)

• A random timer means you can't predict when it will check on you

• Android app - Free

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Alarms with Audio Reminders

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• Do you have trouble remembering things?

• What do you do that helps?

Memory: What about you?

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Simple Memory Aids

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Motion Activated Reminders

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Medication Devices

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Voice Recording Devices

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Remembering Phone Numbers 

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Recording meetings, classes

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Where are the Keys?

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• Device Demonstrations

• Email newsletter and webinars

• ATXchange.org

• AT Loan Fund

• Web: www.mymdrc.org/assistive-tech.html

Michigan’s Assistive Technology Program

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“Recovery, to me, doesn't mean denying my problems or pretending that they don't exist. I have learned a lot from people with physical disabilities, who think of recovery not in terms, necessarily, of restoring lost function, but of finding ways to compensate or substitute for what one may be unable to do.” – Judi Chamberlin “Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient”

Last Thoughts