Touch Sound vs TouchVIC

Touch Sound supports early literacy learning of young children. Developed by Dr. Zhen Chai of New Mexico State University Department of Special Education & Communication Disorders, this app helps young children learn to receptively identify initial phonemes. Phonological awareness (PA) skills are a component of early literacy instruction and essential in helping children become independent readers. With Touch Sound, children can practice and improve identification of initial phonemes. Adults select the phonemes, the length of time between the task direction and the prompt, number of trials, and number of multiple-choice offerings.

TouchVic is a mobile application that has been designed to be used as a support tool in Early attention of visually impaired children. It includes nine kinds of different activities for iPad, which are intended to stimulate cognitive, emotional, sensorial and motor aspects: 1. Memory association 2. Search 3. Recognize 4. Playing with space 5. Discover sounds 6. Music 7. Classify 8. Story 9. Prebraille + It is an autor tool which allows the customization and configuration of exercises in order to adapt them to the child’s interests, needs and abilities at all times. + It is possible to create customized agendas,, where activities and evaluation sessions can be sequenced. + Evaluation of the child’s progress with the use of real time data of their interaction, and comparative graphics. TouchVic is one of the first Aps of it’s kind, which are really inclusive and accessible for professionals or family members who are visually impaired.