CViConnect Pro vs Touch Targets

Who is the app for? CViConnect Pro is an iPad application intended to support teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs) who are working with students who have Cortical Visual Impairment. The app can be used by teachers to prepare and run visual activities with their students. The 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 TVI through the process of working with students who have Cortical Visual Impairment. It allows the TVI to present visually stimulating activities to the student and captures data that can be used by the TVI to better help their students with their impairment. 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? CViConnect Pro 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.

Touch Targets is an early learning fun activity app. It may help develop coordination and stimulation for young learners. Touch Targets contains different fun animated shapes and characters that appear in random places on screen. When the target is touched by a tap, then character jumps somewhere else. New characters appear automatically and there is plenty of applause. Sea creatures, space alien and rockets, butterflies and balloons, halloween characters as well as simple shapes and mesmeric blobs will keep the young ones exploring. Touch Targets from Sensory App House contains no adverts and does not require a login. It is available for school site licensing. Touch Targets can be controlled with a mouse, touch screen or XBox controller and the Microsoft Adaptive controller. With the Adaptive controller and XBox controller, the Dpad allows you to select the scene, and then allows you to move a target around the zone. A button pops the target when you are over it, and B button makes a target jump around randomly. X & Y change the characters and backgrounds. Use the View and List button to control the display. Keyboard control is possible with an external bluetooth keyboard, or an access switch device. The keyboard characters 1,2,3,4,5,6 space,+,-,Enter allows the target to move position, change size, change backgrounds and change target style. The app control buttons can be hidden with a keypress 5, so this is useful for filling the whole screen for touch (but not hitting touch controls). External bluetooth Keyboard or assistive switch input; 1 and Space - moves the target 2 - changes target size 3 and Enter - change background graphic 4 and + Key - next target, - key last target 5 - hide buttons 6 - return to main menu