The CQL POST App vs ID Transition Forward App

CQL, The Council on Quality and Leadership’s Personal Outcome Screening Tool (CQL-POST) is an interactive and user-friendly app for iPads, providing a snapshot view of a person’s quality of life. It explores 21 life outcomes, while assessing the presence, importance and priority of each outcome. The outcomes cover a full range of life experiences, including employment, inclusion, choice, relationships, respect and more. The CQL-POST App can be used by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, those with mental and behavioral health conditions, and older adults. It uses easy-to-understand language, images, audio playback and a touch screen. THE CQL-POST App can present survey questions in English or in Spanish. The CQL-POST App can assist human service organizations (large or small), nation-wide providers and governmental agencies in person-centered planning, while establishing future services and supports. Organizations can also directly gather aggregate information from the CQL-POST online database. With this information, an organization can spot trends in service gaps and successes, to better inform organizational change and improvement. The CQL-POST App uses the ATLAS survey service for collecting and downloading survey data from the CQL-POST through AbleLink’s ATLAS cloud (see below). After creating a free user account, each organization using the CQL-POST App is provided 15 free uses of the App (per agency or organization) as a trial period. Additional uses of the App can be purchased for ongoing use of the CQL-POST and online access to the survey results database to download the aggregate survey data in a CSV file. Usage fees vary depending upon the term of service desired. Information about the per survey cost for ongoing use of the CQL-POST will be provided to your organization when you create your free user account. After purchasing the CQL-POST through the App store, there is no additional cost or obligation to complete up to 15 free surveys for your organization. CQL partnered with AbleLink Technologies on the development of the CQL-POST App. The CQL-POST App has been developed by AbleLink using their research-based cognitively accessible survey system, ATLAS (Accessible Testing Learning and Assessment System). ATLAS was developed in part through research funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). AbleLink is a pioneer and national leader in the development of technology-based innovations which use a person-centered design philosophy to enable individuals with cognitive disabilities to live a more self-determined and fulfilled life.

This app is a tool for developing a transition plan for high-school aged students with disabilities who have an IEP (Individualized Education Program). An IEP details special education services. A transition plan is part of the IEP, for students who are 16 years old and older. This plan helps the student move into adult life after high school. To develop your transition plan, you answer the questions in the brief 10 minute survey, and the app will produce your individualized draft transition plan based on your answers. You can then print your draft transition plan and take it to your IEP meeting. You can also email a copy of your plan to yourself or others you want to share it with. If you want to change your plan, it is easy. Just fill out the survey again, provide new or additional information, and the app will generate your new transition plan. A transition plan is an important part of your IEP document. Your school must develop a written transition plan as part of your IEP. Your transition plan must be in place beginning the school year when you will turn 16. Also, your transition plan can be developed before you turn 16. You, and your parents (if you are under 18 years old) have a right to help develop your transition plan, and to attend the IEP meetings when your transition plan is discussed. Having a good transition plan is important. It helps you get the right services and supports you will need after high school. A transition plan can help you do the things you want to do like get the job you want, train for a job, continue your education, and live independently. A good transition plan helps you reach your dreams. This app is intended to serve as a tool for Idaho students, family members, and educators during the transition planning process. It is based on the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - https://sites.ed.gov/idea/. As an Idaho student with a disability who may be turning 16 years or older, or a family member of a transition age student, this app can help prepare for IEP meetings where transition planning will be discussed and the transition plan will be developed, and/or modified. Individuals residing outside of Idaho may use this free app, but the information needed for transition plans in other states may be different. The information in this app is for general information purposes only, it is not legal advice. This app was originally designed by the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, a non-profit organization. The app was adapted by DisAbility Rights Idaho and designed to meet transition planning needs in Idaho.