Visual LightPad vs Build Some More

Visual LightPad creates a bright illuminated surface for developing visual perceptual and visual motor skills in people with visual impairment. It's a cheaper alternative to expensive, dedicated hardware visual impairment light boxes. Think of it as a digital light box! Adjust Visual LightPad's brightness and color, then place semi transparent toys, numbers or letters on the iPad's screen. Where colors become difficult, open the color picker and change the background color to something that accentuates the toys. Where hardware light boxes can be associated with work, iPads tend to be associated with play. Visual LightPad helps develop awareness to color and light, but using objects also helps in the development of visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, and both visual scanning and tracking. Visual LightPad can also be used for; - Reading content printed onto acetate - Providing a reading backlight when paper documents are placed on top of it - Photo negative illumination - Sensory / mood lighting Visual LightPad is purposefully easy to use and relatively low on features. It supports presets for easy saving and recall of preferred settings. It is designed to run on iPad, but also runs on iPhone - meaning you can keep a small light box in your pocket at all times.

Build Some More is a very early years cause and effect program. It has a wide range of abstract and representational images that build up and animate after 1 - multiple presses. The activities are on a variety of backgrounds to cater to different visual needs of users. Similarly activities can have a variety of background sounds to suit the acoustic requirements of different users. Switch settings are available to permit responses from any switch, alternating switches, random switches or a cooperative switch mode where both switches have to be pressed together (useful for teacher to control the flow of an activity if they have one of the swiches or to get two users to cooperate). Some of the activities are deliberately very strong visually to support user with visual impairments and some use occlusion and animations to encourage visual development/training. Input is from touch, keys, external switches or gamepad. Sensory Build Some More contains no adverts, does not require a subscription and does not collect data.