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Navigation & Location Apps

By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com

The following apps can assist users who are blind or visually impaired with assistance in navigation and travel.

Free. AbleRoad lets you locate, rate and review accessible places. You can find nearby restaurants, stores, hotels, groceries, salons, theaters, and more.

$5.99 The Ariadne GPS app offers the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, number, etc. as well as lets you explore the map of what is around you. When VoiceOver is activated, you can drag your finger over the screen to identify streets and numbers around you!

Free. AroundMe allows you to quickly find out information about your position and allows you to choose the nearest businesses in proximity to where you are.

$23.99 BlindSquare allows you to sense what is around you. It uses GPS and the compass to locate you. It then gathers information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare.

Free. The Curb (formerly Taxi Magic) app allows you to book a ride to your location in three taps of your iPhone. Use the app to track a nearby taxi as it arrives.

Free. The iMove app supports independent mobility for people who are visually impaired. It tells the address, points of interests and features customized messages.

Free. The Seeing Assistant - Move LITE app is a free version offering route planning, advanced neighborhood scanner, searching for location, where am I functionality, route recorder, sharing points, text to voice and dropbox integration.

$7.99. The Seeing Assistant - Move app provides advanced geo-location and navigation features as well as current weather reports. Features include route planning, advanced neighborhood scanner, searching for location, where am I functionality, route recorder, sharing points, text to voice and dropbox integration.

Free. The Seeing Eye GPS app is a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS iPhone app with all the normal navigation features plus features unique to people who are blind.

Free Yellow Pages allows you to search via voice for a business or person nearby. Once located, the number and information can either be added to your contacts or called directly.

Free Sendero GPS Look Around for the iPhone, with Voice Over, announces the current street, city, cross street, heading and nearby points of interest. Unlike Sendero's other applications, there is no turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone yet.

Selecting the Right AT for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired Recorded Presentation

$25.00

Are you overwhelmed by the process of selecting assistive technology for your students? This presentation will encompass the process and steps of selecting the right assistive technology for students who are blind or visually impaired using the SETT framework. Key points covered in this presentation include identification of the current problem; consideration of current skills; understanding unique visual and learning needs; awareness of AT for VI; AT equipment considerations; the process of building a toolkit; instructional strategies; and next steps.

Objectives:

Identify required steps in conducting an AT evaluation for students with visual impairments.
Analyze student’s current skills and unique needs to make appropriate AT recommendations
Develop strategies for selecting low, mid and high tech Assistive Technology

Includes:

Recorded PowerPoint Show
Transcript
Presentation handout
Printables & Links to Resources discussed in presentation

Request a Certificate of Completion

To receive a certificate of completion for 1 contact hour, complete the short "Selecting the Right AT" quiz on Google Forms and receive a score of at least 80%. Don't worry. If you don't pass, you can re-watch the presentation and retake the test! If you have any accessibility issues with the form, please don't hesitate to let me know and we can make other arrangements.

System Requirements:

Presentations are recorded PowerPoint presentations. You must be able to access PowerPoint to view the PowerPoint presentation. Please note that the presentation pages are closed member pages available to individuals who have purchase access to the presentation.

*Please contact me if you need to purchase using a purchase order. I am happy to help guide you in the process of adding Teaching Students with Visual Impairments as an approved vendor for your school or program or you can visit the product support page for information on using a PO.

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