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There are many applications (apps) available to assist teachers of students with visual impairments and other vision professionals in their work. I have collected some of my favorite apps in the following categories:
Click here to download the list of recommended vision and hearing apps in .pdf format.
Apps for Vision Information
| Take care of your vision by personalizing the app to receive reminders, order your contact lenses, claim offers and discounts and organize all your appointments in one location. | |
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Diagnostic and treatment reference app for eye care professionals. |
| Clinical images of virtually all eye diseases. | |
| Dok's free Snellen Eye Chart is part of a larger collection of useful medical tools and references. | |
| This app was developed to allow people with healthy vision to see the world through the eyes of a person experiencing one of nine degenerative eye diseases. | |
| From Visual Acuity, Astigmatism and Colour Tests - this app will evaluate your eyes in a variety of different ways, all from the comfort of your own home. | |
| These series of images in this app are designed to provide a test which gives a quick assessment of color vision deficiency of congenital origin. | |
| Color vision simulation tool which simulates the color vision of color vision deficiencies. | |
| Rotate your device like a steering wheel and you'll go through the whole spectrum of hues/colors. | |
| This app uses the camera to speak the names of colors in real-time. | |
| This simple test of your vision can alert you to early changes that may indicate a problem with your macula caused by diabetes or macular degeneration. | |
| This app is used by eye care professionals to help demonstrate various eye diseases, conditions and treatments to their patients. | |
| Measure your eyesight accurately and easily at home, in school, hospital, or anywhere with this app. | |
| This app contains high contrast pictures in flashcard format, designed for newborns and babies. | |
| This app displays simple animated patterns designed to appeal to babies' developing visual systems. | |
| Using HD display, this app provides a professional tool and instrument for eye diagnostic at hospitals, schools, universities, at homes, etc. | |
| Bringing the famous Snellen's eye chart to IOS, this app is used by eye care professionals and others to measure visual acuity. | |
| This app tests vision with color challenges and puzzles. | |
| Designed to help normal, blind and color blind individuals to identify/decide color names for every day objects. |
Vision Lights and Magnifiers
| Slim, ultra bright, versatile and environmentally friendly makes this modern light box ideal for film, slides and x-rays viewing. | |
| Reading glasses tool for people who have difficulty reading fine print and focusing on nearby objects due to presbyopia, eye illness, etc. | |
| Instantly turn your iPhone into the brightest possible Flashlight. | |
| Illuminate your way in the dark using the built-in LED flash. | |
| New category of handheld electronic magnifier. | |
| Use the ENTIRE screen as a BIG magnifying glass. | |
| Digital magnifier with flashlight. | |
| Takes real pictures and videos at the lowest luminosity without any additional appliances on iPhone. | |
| Use as a widget to change screen brightness. | |
| 12x Photo-Quality Zoom and one-tap access to Satellite Aerial View. | |
| Easy Reader RSS is here to fill the void in the RSS Reader market. | |
| This app transforms any natural or artificial light source it encounters into sound. | |
| Mirror 3-in-1 uses the iPhone 4's camera and LED flash as a mirror, a magnifying glass, and a flashlight. |
Visual Scanning Ideas
| Game where users learn about animals and feed/take care of them. | |
| Interactive iPad game for kids allowing them to visually recognize and learn about animals. | |
| Deluxe images to truly see the finite detail and brand new touch based interactive features. | |
| Game: Cut the rope to feed candy to little monster Om Nom®. | |
| Move the magnifying glass to locate the the selected bug(s) in the display jar. | |
| Play unlimited high quality word search puzzles, with user selected themes. | |
| Game: Using glow lights to highlight the hockey game, easy to play, hard to master. | |
| Interactions are designed with an action / reaction play pattern – perfect for even the youngest babies. | |
| High contrast animated images and great sound effects designed to provide visual stimulation and to develop and assess visual preferences. | |
| Pocket Bowling 3D comes with a power packed Bowling games in 3Dimension View. It is well designed with all aspects of a standard bowling game, to give users an awesome gaming experience. | |
| Black background and brightly coloured musicians provide great contrast making this activity very suitable for users with visual and perceptual difficulties. | |
| This app pleasantly animate various patterns with soothing classics or nature sounds. | |
| Variety of simple and interactive scenes for parent and baby to enjoy together. The scenes promote visual development, focus and motion tracking. | |
| Activities on this app improves the eye muscle usage by following the moving object by rolling eyeball only. | |
| Tap on your device to make the fish swim. | |
| In this game, players tap the black tiles to create musical notes, and lose if they tap the white tiles. |
Braille
| This app promotes learning of standard Braille code. | |
| Developed to help Vocational Rehabilitation instructors, Orientation and Mobility instructors learn to read and comprehend Braille by providing a means to translate common words, sentences, numbers, and computer related information from text to Braille. | |
| Learn the alphabet and punctuation symbols of the Braille code as an entry point to the language. | |
| Designed to teach sighted persons how to recognize the Braille letters a-z. | |
| Learning game that will teach you to recognize the Braille Alphabet Symbols. | |
| 'Connect-the-dots' mix & match, multiple choice games to match a Braille character & standard letters, toggle dots in a Braille character to the correct pattern for a letter or digit, and lots of other activites. |
Please note that you may need to check whether the app has been updated or whether it only works with certain operating systems. Please let us know if you have any information to share about any of the apps on this page! You can email us or leave a comment below.
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