VISION SKILLS APPS
By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com The following apps can be helpful in working with students on vision skills. Be aware of selecting apps that address the needed vision skills and also are age appropriate. |
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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 |
Acteris is a Tetris style puzzle game where the user must use visual scanning, tracking and discrimination to advance through the game.
Free. Majong Jewels Deluxe Brain Training Memory Game. If your student's enjoy ToodleTiles, they may enjoy this fun mahjong emoji app (minus the Toodletile comments).
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. Ball Tapper features a ball that must be tapped. The ball bounces and moves faster as it is touched making it more challenging as the user progresses through the game.
$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.
Free. Close Up Pics encourages the user to identify a picture by guessing the object from the zoomed in photo quickly.
Free. Color Play is a coloring app with animation. Free and paid versions are available.
Free. Color Splurge is a photo editor that lets you select the which areas of a picture to remain grayscale and color specific areas to create emphasis.
Free. Glow Coloring Book allows user to color over coloring page. Although the lines for the pages are in VERY low contrast, this is still a fun app for coloring...inside or outside the lines!
Free Maze 100 allows the user to play 100 challenging mazes in 3D. Create mazes with the maze generator or play pre-made mazes. Collect power ups to speed or slow down the game.
Free. Live Butterflies surrounds the user with butterflies. Use the Viewer to look around and see butterflies. If you touch the screen near a butterfly, it will fly over and land on your finger. Choose game mode and catch as many butterflies as you can before time runs out. Use the screen to look around you and touch the screen to catch them!
Free. Photo Splash is a free application that lets the user to add colorization effects to photos.
Free. Maze Craze a fun game that has the user drive a truck to move through a maze. Honk the horn to move other vehicles out of the way.
Free. On the Road is an game where the user must keep their finger on the road. Challenge the student to keep their finger on the road. Challenge the student to beat their previous high score.
What's the Difference? is a spot the differences game. It features photo hunt puzzles of hidden object games, encouraging the user to use visual discrimination skills.
Free and paid. Visual Attention Therapy is a cognitive training app designed to help persons with brain injury and strokes as well as students who need practice with visual scanning. It also helps determine visual field neglect.
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