Start With the Person

Turn a fictional person’s stated aim, preferences, communication, context, and support needs into clear criteria before generating anything.

Analyze the Activity

Examine activity demands, access barriers, environmental fit, and support options before asking AI to propose adaptations.

Prototype and Test

Build one accessible visual, handout, HTML tool, Markdown resource, or other prototype; then revise it with person feedback and practitioner review.

About the Course

An attractive artifact is not automatically a person-centered plan. This self-paced course helps recreational therapists and community-based support professionals use AI to explore options, analyze activity demands, and prototype accessible resources while keeping the person’s aim and feedback central. Learners use the fictional Lena photo-walk case, embedded practice, and the Person–Purpose–Prototype Lab. The course covers option generation, activity analysis, accessible formats, HTML and Markdown artifacts, connector-aware workflows, and testing. AI supports the work; it does not replace the person’s voice, practitioner expertise, or real-world follow-through. All lessons in the curriculum are included with free enrollment; no purchase is required.

Tyler Neimeyer, MS, CTRS

Tyler Neimeyer, MS, CTRS

Tyler Neimeyer is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and the founder and instructor at Community Practice Institute. He develops practical, person-centered education for recreational therapists and community-based professionals, drawing on experience in community participation, disability services, and interdisciplinary practice. His teaching emphasizes useful decisions, clear role boundaries, and tools learners can carry into real settings.

Curriculum

5 Chapters · 10 Lessons

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      Begin With the Person

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      Analyze the Activity

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      Generate and Compare Options

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      Prototype Without Taking Over

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      Make Artifacts Usable

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      Test, Transfer, and Decide

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      Discussion (Optional)

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      Course Knowledge Check

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      Course Evaluation (Optional)

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      Course Completion and Credit

Course Details and Boundaries

Use these boundaries to keep the course person-centered, accessible, and grounded in real-world use.

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Online and self-paced. Includes six narrated lessons, embedded activities, a final knowledge check, one optional discussion, and an optional course evaluation.
Course format

All practice stays inside the course.

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The artifact supports the person’s plan; it does not become the plan. The person can accept, reject, change, pause, or redirect the work at each meaningful decision point.
Person first

Keep authority visible.

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Use fictional, de-identified, or otherwise approved information. Protected health information and sensitive client information do not belong in an unapproved AI workspace.
Information boundary

Practice with safer material.

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Check readability, accessibility, environmental fit, source accuracy, and real-world usefulness with the person and appropriate human reviewers.
Prototype review

Test before relying on it.

Build a Resource Around the Person

Use this course to define one person-centered aim, analyze the activity, and produce a practical prototype that improves through feedback.

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