MARSHFIELD, MA, ISSUED JANUARY 8, 2024… Road to Responsibility (RTR; http://roadtoresponsibility.org), one of the region’s largest and most successful nonprofit organizations supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is partnering with the University of Florida Reality Lab and Reality Garage to create an immersive program, particularly for individuals on the autism spectrum.
This partnership is part of a larger collaboration with WORK Inc., South Shore Support Services, and the Arc of Bristol County, in which each organization is working with another virtual reality-focused-firm to help create better tools for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. This unique collaboration between the four regional leading providers of services to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities will result in a number of virtual reality scenarios that address mindfulness and emotional regulation, teach alternate behaviors, instruct in social skills, and provide job specific training, from which they all can benefit
