I work at a non-profit (that does accept volunteers, and with a volunteer coordinator who is great at dealing with this kind of thing) and also has volunteers with various disabilities.
The thing that strikes me here is seeing if they can arrange to talk to a contact related to Edward's occupational therapy, leaning heavily on the "We'd like to make sure we're aligning the tasks with the things he's focusing on or enjoys doing - just like we'd do if we had other volunteers." It may be that the OT (or whoever it is) would go "Oh, no, that's not a great fit" and would have leverage to suggest a change that is external to any of the employees under Martha.
One of the things we do is also keep a stash of non-time-sensitive things that are hard to mess up for when we have this kind of volunteer handy. Our workflow varies too, but I can often come up with something that is in fact useful, not high priority, and hard to mess up (or easy to fix, depending.)
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The thing that strikes me here is seeing if they can arrange to talk to a contact related to Edward's occupational therapy, leaning heavily on the "We'd like to make sure we're aligning the tasks with the things he's focusing on or enjoys doing - just like we'd do if we had other volunteers." It may be that the OT (or whoever it is) would go "Oh, no, that's not a great fit" and would have leverage to suggest a change that is external to any of the employees under Martha.
One of the things we do is also keep a stash of non-time-sensitive things that are hard to mess up for when we have this kind of volunteer handy. Our workflow varies too, but I can often come up with something that is in fact useful, not high priority, and hard to mess up (or easy to fix, depending.)