Visual LightPad vs Match'Em

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.

Match 'em is a vibrant picture-matching game designed for visual assessment and training of children and young people with low vision. With bold, high-contrast images on varied backgrounds, it helps practitioners and parents evaluate and develop visual recognition, discrimination and attention skills in an engaging, motivating way. Choose from eight topic areas — including colours, shapes, silhouettes and everyday pictures — each with multiple activities set against different backgrounds to vary visual complexity. A target picture is shown at the top of the screen; the learner finds the matching one from the pictures below. Fully accessible with built-in switch scanning support: - Touch/Mouse mode for direct selection - 1 Switch auto-scan with adjustable speed - 2 Switch step-and-select for users who need more control Fun reward animations and sounds celebrate every correct match, keeping learners motivated. Wrong answers are gently flagged so they can try again. Designed in landscape orientation for easy use on a table or stand, Match 'em works on iPhone, iPad and Mac.