How It Works

A safer way to explore difficult choices

EconAbility uses fictional situations rather than asking families to disclose real bank details or account balances. The aim is to practise understanding and participation, not to judge personal finances.

One Decision. Three Ways to Engage.

Digital Game

Self-paced, visual and interactive, with adaptable presentation and pacing.

Board Game

Tactile and social, making choices, constraints and consequences visible.

Facilitated Simulation Pack

Guided participation for people who benefit from additional communication or decision support.

Explore Safely

Use fictional situations to explore everyday economic decisions without sharing real bank details or personal financial information.

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Make Your Voice Heard

Identify what matters to you, including priorities, concerns, constraints and the information you still need.

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See What Changes

Compare different pathways and explore how choices, circumstances and available support can affect possible outcomes.

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Enter a situation

Choose a fictional everyday decision such as an unexpected bill, a subscription, transport pressure or a suspicious offer.

Choose your format

Use clear text, visual cues, audio, low-sensory presentation, additional processing time or supported choice as these modes are developed and tested.

Express what matters

Each participant identifies priorities, concerns, constraints or information they still need.

Compare realistic options

Explore more than one reasonable option. The system does not assume there is one correct answer.

See consequences

View possible effects across money, time, energy, access, support and wellbeing.

Reflect & Find Support

See whether available support changes the options, then summarise why a pathway was chosen.

Sample scenario

The Bill, the Bus and the Birthday

A fictional family receives an unexpectedly high electricity bill. Their child also has an important social activity, but peak hour transport creates significant sensory pressure.

The family explores paying now, arranging instalments, seeking support, changing transport or reconsidering another expense.

The goal isn’t to find the cheapest answer.

The cheapest option may not be the most accessible. EconAbility makes trade offs and support pathways visible without scoring or judging the family.

What Makes EconAbility Different?

Most systems ask

What does this person need to learn?

EconAbility asks

What needs to change about the decision environment so this person can participate?

The innovation is not teaching neurodivergent people to fit existing systems.
It is redesigning the decision experience around different minds.

What EconAbility does not do

These boundaries apply to every scenario and every format.

Want to explore EconAbility?

See the method in a working product.

EconoTales is the existing digital simulation the EconAbility approach is being built on.