IATP has been selected as a recipient of an AI Glasses Impact Grant from Meta that will help fund the WorkLens Initiative: Reframing Community-Based Employment with Smart Glasses.
Meta Community Impact Grant Spotlight
The WorkLens Initiative will explore how hands-free AI-driven assistive technology can assist workers with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) in the workplace.
As providers of employment services for adults with IDD are shifting their business models away from subminimum wage workshop settings to competitive jobs in the community, new technologies like AI glasses can help provide on-the-job support. Real-time access to optical character recognition that can address literacy barriers is just one example of how AI glasses can help workers with IDD.
The WorkLens Initiative will run in conjunction with existing IATP programs to provide full assistive technology evaluations through Illinois’ Vocational Rehabilitation program.
To learn more about the WorkLens Initiative and how to connect adults with IDD to services, please submit a request for more information.
