CViConnect vs EDA PLAY TOM

Who is the app for? CVi Connect is an iPad application intended to support parents, and teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs), who work with children who have Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). The app can be used by parents, TVIs and anyone else who works with children who have CVI. CVi Connect's goal is to aid in the process of improving the visual impairment with this iPad application, and grow the awareness of CVI as a whole and provide educational content related to CVI. What does it do? The application guides the user through exercises of varying difficulty that are intended to help the child's eye focus on graphics on the screen, which stimulates the area of the brain that is most affected by CVI. By stimulating this area of the brain we can support the improvement of the child's vision. Over time the exercises are tailored to each child based on the data that is collected while the child and parent use the application. How does it work? Using the front-facing camera in the iPad the application can measure facts about how the child is responding to the exercises. All of these expertly-determined facts can then be graphed and analyzed by the educator, in whole or in part, across all training sessions. For example, it is possible to graph the time spent, on average, on training sessions combined with the number of times a sprite is touched, showing ways of measuring improvement in visual acuity as well as allowing a teacher to tailor future lesson plans to better match the needs of the student. In addition to analyzing favorite and least favorite lessons, the CVI system has the ability to use information from the training sessions to automatically generate new training sessions that are best for the student. As an example, the system can detect highly touched areas of the iPad and where sprites are commonly touched. Using this information, the system can automatically generate new lesson plans that focus the attention specifically on these areas as well as specifically AWAY from these areas to improve acuity. The system can use facts about the lengths of time spent on average by the user on training sessions to tailor the length of time a typical training session should take place. Where can I get help if I need it? CVi Connect maintains a support forum where users of the app (parents, TVI's and CVI professionals) are supported by leading CVI professionals and CVi Connect technical staff. Users can asks questions and provide feedback in this forum, which adds to the CVi community as a whole by serving as a place where CVI discussions can take place.

For the training of vision and fine motor skills; developed for children with visual and multiple disorders. Tailor-made for children with central visual impairment (CVI). Explore the adventure with animals on the farm and in the forest! It is so simple that even children with limited fine motor skills can control the game. Suitable both for children with visual disorders and for children with severe fine and gross motor skills impairments. KEY FEATURES THE ADVENTURE WITH ANIMALS ON THE FARM AND IN THE FOREST - Let's explore tasks with animals, groom the horse, feed the sheep. - Touch and find out what's hiding in the forest. TAILOR-MADE FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS - Children can touch the iPad display anywhere or just slap it – and they are rewarded with an interesting sound and animation of an animal. TRAINING OF VISUAL SKILLS - Bright colors, simple pictures, simple scenes - Images set against a black background. ATTRACTIVE SOUND DESIGN AND ANIMATIONS - Interesting sound and animations capture visual attention. WHITE FRAME can be set to distinctively demarcate the work surface of the tablet display. The SKILLS SECTION records the work of the child with the app. The SIMULATOR OF VISUAL DISORDERS enables adults to better understand how complicated the world is for children with visual disorders. The app was developed in cooperation with low vision specialists and experts in the field of early intervention. The authorship of the EDA PLAY TOM app belongs to the non-profit organization EDA cz, z.ú. and to the digital studio Sugar And Ketchup. The project is carried out with the support of the Czech Radio Foundation (Nadační fond Českého rozhlasu) from the Firefly (Světluška) fund, the ČEZ Foundation, and Dow. For more information go to www.edaplay.com