ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
Functional Link works with event organizers, venues, public spaces, and community organizations to identify barriers and create practical strategies that support accessibility, inclusion, and participation.
Support may include accessibility review, environmental and participant experience assessment, sensory and communication considerations, staff education, planning recommendations, and individualized problem-solving to help more people understand, navigate, use, and participate in the experience.
This includes everything from finding information and arriving at the location to navigating the environment, understanding what to expect, participating in activities, taking breaks, and accessing support when needed.
Functional Link helps organizers and community spaces look beyond basic physical access to identify practical opportunities to make experiences easier to understand, navigate, use, and participate in.
Listen & Learn
Identify & Integrate
Navigate & Trial
Keep & Sustain.”
Functional Link can review event plans, activities, communication, and participant expectations before the event begins to identify potential barriers and practical ways to improve access, comfort, and participation.
Functional Link evaluates how people move through, understand, and use a space, looking beyond physical entry to consider navigation, seating, sensory demands, communication, activity access, and other factors that shape participation.
Functional Link helps identify sensory, communication, and cognitive demands that may make an experience harder to navigate and develops supports such as clearer information, predictable routines, visual resources, flexible participation options, and lower-stimulation spaces.
Functional Link provides practical education and consultation to help staff and volunteers recognize barriers, communicate more clearly, respond to accommodation needs, and support participation in ways that respect individual choice and autonomy.
Adding seating, shaded areas, quiet spaces, or lower-stimulation options so people can rest, regulate, and return to the experience.
Improving signage, maps, entrances, check-in areas, pathways, and visual cues so people can understand where to go and what happens next.
Providing seated options, adapted activities, alternative formats, flexible timing, or other choices so participation is not limited to one expected way.
Sharing clear accessibility information, parking and entrance details, sensory expectations, schedules, photos, maps, or visual guides ahead of time.
Giving staff and volunteers practical guidance for responding to accommodation requests, communication differences, sensory overload, fatigue, mobility needs, or unexpected barriers.
Being available on site to help participants, families, staff, and volunteers problem-solve barriers as they arise, identify practical adaptations, and support access and participation in real time.
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