May 31. (Portaltic/EP) –
Fundación ONCE and Samsung have presented this Wednesday the ‘Ayho!’ project, a technological tool that makes it easier for people with disabilities who work under the supported employment modality the necessary support to carry out their work.
Supported employment is a work modality designed for people with certain disability profiles included in Royal Decree 870/2007, who due to their special characteristics have labor insertion difficulties in companies in the ordinary labor market.
It’s about getting them conditions similar to those of other workers, for which they have job coaches who provide the necessary aid. According to estimates from the Spanish Association of Supported Employment (AESE), in Spain there are 30,000 people with disabilities working under this type of employment.
The application that they have presented this Wednesday ONCE Foundation and Samsung allows people with disabilities to train and acquire inherent knowledge linked to each job. It’s called Ayho! (Assistant and Guidance Tool) and is available for iOS and Android mobiles and tablets and from the web.
Its development has had the collaboration of the EASEand the participation of 30 entities active in this type of employment for the definition of needs, which have used mobile devices donated by the Korean company.
The initiative is also part of the Samsung’s ‘Technology with Purpose’ program and aims to focus on the abilities of talent with disabilities through technology and in contributing to the digital transformation of the entities that develop these employment services, as their promoters explain in a press release.
Ayho! helps pre-employment trainers thanks to the contents of the courses on your training platform. It allows creating user profiles, describing tasks with text and audiovisual material, assigning them, planning agendas, setting alarms and monitoring evaluations, among other aspects.
The app too supports workers to better carry out their tasks. They can take courses before starting work, follow the steps to learn a new task, know what to do at all times when they are on the job, and keep in touch with their job coaches.
The presentation of this application was held this Wednesday with the participation of the ONCE Foundation’s Director of Training, Employment, Operations and Studies, Sabina Lobato; the Head of Brand Strategy & Innovation at Samsung Electronics, Miguel Ángel Ruiz; the vice president of the Spanish Association of Supported Employment (AESE), Almudena Martorell, and the general secretary and director of Transformation, Excellence and Equality of the ONCE Foundation, Virginia Carcedo.
