Good news! freebeard has bugged me!
Bad news! He never mentioned this!
I am a speech therapist and I see clients through two agencies. The paperwork takes way too long, partially because neither website is well-designed, but I am supposed to write, for example, "freebeard correctly solved world hunger 0/10 times with maximum prompting."
The goal doesn't change from week to week, or necessarily from quarter to quarter, just the percentage of accuracy (or correct attempts out of total attempts) and how much prompting they require.
The weird thing is that each site will list each goal and I give it the numbers and level of prompting, but in school they actually gave us tables saying:
0-40% accuracy: Maximum prompting.
41-60% accuracy: Moderate-to-maximum prompting.
61-80% accuracy: Minimal-to-moderate prompting.
81-99% accuracy: Minimal prompting.
100% accuracy: Independent.
However, I am then supposed to write out everything, so if I had a utility that asked for the numbers, added the level of prompting, and gave me a statement that I could copy and paste it would save me a couple minutes per session and ideally I see 15+ clients per week.
The thing is, I have used scripting languages to automate TradeWars 2002, originally written in 1984, and last updated in 2011--still text-only.
I am positive that I can script something that will read the first line from a text file, pull the first word, which will be the name, and ask "How many times did you see freebeard?"
Then it loops however many times.
"How many trials did freebeard have for [goal]?"
10
"How many did freebeard get right?"
0
Then it will write "freebeard correctly solved world hunger 0/10 times with maximum prompting." to a file.
If the next line is blank it will output a blank line and pull the next client's name and ask how many times I saw him or her--or end if it reached the end of the file.
Progress reports take hours and hours every quarter, but those are much more complicated, partially because my first site doesn't keep track of the data.
The second does, so every quarter it tells me that freebeard solved world hunger with an average of 42%, so that was probably moderate-to-maximum prompting.
With the first agency I need to download each session note as a PDF, which are often comingled with occupational therapy, and then I need to open each and every one and pull the numbers.
Every other speech therapist just makes it up.
While the script that I described might save me 30-60 minutes every week, if I could pay for any tool, I would pay for new clients.
My two agencies don't send me new clients very often, but another agency, which doesn't have an office or office staff, now has 3 SLPs in the area, and the owner responds to vendor calls when she gets to them
freebeard, did I miss the reason you mentioned me?
