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
$50.00
Written specifically for fellow itinerant Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI’s), this book 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. The core activities listed in the Activity section can be adapted to each thematic unit. These include:
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. Unique Concepts within the Units include:
Although the intended audience of this resource is fellow Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, special education teachers may find these activities beneficial to the students in their classrooms as the activities are multisensory and include life skills and concepts needed by all students. This resource, however, is not intended to take the place of a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI). Readers are advised to consult their own TVI’s regarding instruction in the ECC and the unique visual needs of the student’s served in their programs. Note: This curriculum is a digital pdf download. 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. Each download is intended for single instructor use per copyright. Thank you for helping me preserve the content and not distributing copies to third parties. Product details Digital pdf download: 364 pages (11 pt font) Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments Author: Carmen Willings Language: English 
Visual Efficiency & Magnifier Fluency Grab & Go ECC Supplements
$20.00
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 supplement 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. Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheet Details: Digital pdf download: 210 pages Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments Author: Carmen Willings Language: English |
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. |
