CAUSE & EFFECT APPS
By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com Cause & Effect apps are great for younger children. Although some older students with multiple disabilities may need cause & effect activities, be sure to look for apps that are AGE appropriate.The following is a list of apps you may find helpful in working with younger children or those with multiple disabilities. |
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TVI’s Guide to Teaching the ECC: An Activities Based Curriculum for Teaching Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired The TVI’s Guide to Teaching the ECC is a digital pdf available for download. It is designed specifically for fellow itinerant Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI’s), and consists of over 400 activities and topic areas of discussion for instructing students in the Expanded Core Curriculum. The activities are age-neutral and multi-sensory and therefore can meet the needs of the broad range of students served on an itinerant caseload serving. The activities can be individualized to the students various learning modalities and scaffold in order to challenge students but ensure success. Select those activities that align with the student’s learning objects based on the student’s unique visual needs and academic and developmental level. In addition to the core activity areas, each of the 32 Thematic Units incorporates additional unique ECC concepts and skills providing you with a years’ worth of activities. These units are cyclical and can be used repeatedly to help students build on prior knowledge and develop a deeper understanding of concepts. Each unit includes suggestions for activity adaptation associated with the unit. These include lists of objects, possible community-based experiences, environmental print, poems, children & young reader books, children's songs, pop culture songs, movies, and websites. In addition to the book, the following two supplements are included: ·      TVI’s Guide to the ECC Concept Checklist ·      TVI’s Guide to the ECC Activities Checklist For complete product details and additional images, visit the TVI's Guide product page. TVI's Guide to the ECC Product details ·      Digital pdf download: 346 pages (11 pt font) ·      Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments ·      Author: Carmen Willings ·      Language: English Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheets: TVI's Guide to the ECC Grab and Go Supplements The Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheets is a Grab and Go supplement to the TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC. This workbook is a pdf download that can be printed on demand for use with students. It contains five different types of worksheets for developing visual motor skills and near magnifier fluency skills particularly with the use of a video magnifier. As a companion to the TVI’s Guide to the ECC, the worksheets correspond to each of the 32 ECC Thematic units. The worksheets, along with a list of environmental print for each thematic unit, are designed to help students refine their visual motor skills while reinforcing ECC concepts presented in the thematic units.  For complete product details and additional images, visit the Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Product Page. Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheet Details: ·      Digital pdf download: 210 pages ·      Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments ·      Author: Carmen Willings ·      Language: English Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency and Maintenance Worksheets: A TVI’s Guide to Teaching the ECC Grab & go Supplement The Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency and Maintenance Grab and Go ECC worksheet packet is a print on demand workbook that contains worksheets in print and simulated braille to use for data collection. Present the student with a hard braille copy and use the worksheets to document accuracy and fluency in reading braille. As a companion to the TVI’s Guide to the ECC, the worksheets correspond to the ECC Thematic activities presented in the curriculum guide. These word lists and sentences will help the student refine their keyboarding or braille reading skills while bridging ECC concepts presented in the thematic units. Although the lists and passages can be produced using a manual braillewriter, you may also copy and paste the passages into any braille translation software for quick production on an embosser. They may also be entered into a typing program such as APH’s Talking Typer to build keyboarding fluency. For complete product details and additional images, visit the Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency & Maintenance Product Page Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency Worksheet Details: ·      Digital pdf download: 338-page print and simulated braille worksheets ·      Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments ·      Author: Carmen Willings ·      Language: English Thematic Vocabulary Cards and Checklists: Grab & Go ECC Supplement The Thematic Vocabulary Cards and Checklists Grab and Go ECC supplement is a 446 page pdf downloadable print on demand workbook that includes 2940 vocabulary card on 3 1/2" x 2" templates divided by each of the 32 Thematic Units along with a checklist of each unit words in print and simulated braille. As a companion to the TVI's Guide to the ECC, the vocabulary cards correspond to the ECC Thematic activities presented in the curriculum guide. Additional Use: Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments can have a extremely varied caseloads. It is possible to go several years without having a student on your caseload who requires braille instruction. Like other skills, if you do not practice your braille regularly, it is easy to lose those skills. Use these checklists and cards to maintain your braille skills. Fold the checklist along the line dividing the print from the braille. Choose to either read the print and produce the word in braille using a braillewriter or read the simulated braille and decode it. Finally, these vocabulary cards and checklists may be used with family members or peers who are interested in learning and practicing the braille code. For complete product details and additional images, visit the Thematic Vocabulary Cards & Checklists Product Page Thematic Vocabulary Cards and Checklists Details: ·      Digital pdf download: 446-page print on demand resource ·      Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments ·      Author: Carmen Willings ·      Language: English BONUS! Lotto Cards The LOTTO Cards Grab and Go Supplement includes 37 theme related unit cards along with activity suggestions that support activities within the TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC. On My Way File Folder Cards Print and use these cards to represent locations the student may visit that are related to the current thematic unit. Use these with the On My Way File Folder Game outlined in the TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC p. 27. NEW! Access to TVI's Guide Bonus Membership Pages Note: All products are digital pdf downloads. Once you make your purchase you will be directed to an order confirmation page where you will find the download link. This download will also be included on the receipt sent to the email address you provide. The pdf download can be found directly under the order number. If you encounter any difficulty, please let me know and I can assist you. |
Free or Paid upgrade. Art of Glow by Natenai Ariyatrakool. Touch the screen to create glowing pictures. Adjust amount, size, life time, speed and blink as well as shape and color for customization.
$1.99. Baby Buttons.
Colorful buttons make sounds when you touch them. 
Balloon Pops. Each screen has 10 balloons of varying colors and sizes. Touch a balloon to pop it and get a satisfying “pop” sound. Option to have a audible count of # of balloons popped up to 10.
Free. Baby First Aquarium is a fun game app to simulate an aquarium! Background music plays while the user pops bubbles and TAP on the swimming fish to make them swim faster! Features vibrant colors and fun sounds.
$0.99. Beautiful Bubbles. (Joe Scrivens) Bubbles offers moving targets to touch and “pop.” Two modes: just for fun or challenge mode which keeps score for bubbles touched and missed.
$3.99. Bloom.
(Brian Eno) Tap the screen to create pools of soft color accompanied by gentle music tones. 
$0.99. Bubbles
(Hog Bay Software) Run your finger(s) across the screen to produce bubbles that float and fall with the force of gravity. 
Free or Paid upgrade. Color Splurge - Color and Recolor Effects. This app lets you select a photo from your photo albums or facebook to color. Image is presented in grayscale and color as added as you touch the picture.
Free. Draw Stars!
Yellow and blue stars appear on screen at the touch of your fingers! Animation & Sound. 
$2.99. Eda Play Elis was designed for the training of vision and fine motor skills. The user is encouraged to touch the screen to interact with the pictures and the character Ellie. Bright colors, high contrast and verbal prompts to interact make this a good choice to use with children with visual impairments.
Free on iTunes and GooglePlay! Eda Play Toby was designed for the training of vision and fine motor skills. It consists of two parts: a "watch" stage and an "touching" stage. It features simple shapes with high contrast that move and are visually interesting for younger children.
$2.99. Eda Play Pauli was designed for the training of vision and fine motor skills. The Pauli game is different from Toby in that the plot of the game is to experience a day in a life of a girl named Pauli. The user is encouraged to watch what is going on and touch the screen to make something happen.
Free. Fluidity is a beautiful interactive app that allows the user to control the fluid flow and colors by touching the screen. My students love the mesmerizing flow of colors that encourages visual attending and interaction.
Free and Paid versions. Forge of Neon 3D The student can create glowing shapes in 3D with this app. Colors, rate, and shapes can be adjusted!
$0.99. iLoveFireworks
Fireworks appear on screen at the touch of your fingers. 
$0.99. iSnow-Flake
(Mark Keroles) Life like simulation of falling snow. Tap screen to see colorful snowflakes. High contrast. 
$1.99. Magic Fingers is another great app and one of my new favorites! It features a solid black back for high contrast and allows the user to choose from a selection of patterns and plays background music.
Tap-n-See Now was the first app for iPad and iPhone created specifically for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI). The bright colors and fun pictures in this cause and effect app will also appeal to babies and young toddlers without CVI.
$3.99 Trope.
Similar to Bloom but instead of pools of color streaks of color jet across the screen. |
