This SWCCCASE (Southwest Cook County Collaborative Association for Special Education) poster serves as an aide for the training vocational program geared to help youth with mental and physical disabilities. Often the guardians and parents of their youth would have disabilities as well. With this, the programs complicated process needed to be simplified and described in such a way all can understand.
Everyone learns in a different way. Some students would get over-whelmed with a lot of info on one page. So, I created a multi-paged booklet that had one step per page. It included colors for those who identified transitions with color and graphics for those who needed pictures to relate to. For this piece, I took a double sided flyer and streamlined the process into steps. These steps were then visualized in a flow chart with flat graphics representing each step.
I worked as a para-professional within this program in a temporary assignment and was able to see first hand how the training benefited the youth. Also, I was able to work with students with various disabilities and learned how to focus on their strengths rather than what they struggles. Through visualization, I harnessed the heart of the program, creating clean and legible designs seen in this aide for the students we supported.
The end result allowed for more students to be enrolled into the vocational training program more than years prior. Actually the number almost doubled.