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Target and Timing

Target and Timing

Nine easy to play touch and switch accessible activities from HelpKidzLearn.

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Nine easy to play touch and switch accessible activities from HelpKidzLearn.

Custard Splodger

Custard Splodger

Let’s get messy with custard. A simple touch and switch accessible activity to encourage creative play. Custard Splodger offers a fun way to help children with special needs and others to practice and enjoy their interactions with a touch screen.

Touch the screen to squirt yucky custard everywhere. Custard Splodger offers an interesting problem solving element, where players can learn to wait to allow the custard splodger to fill up and provide a really big squirt.

The built-in options allow you to control the speed that the splodger moves across the bottom of the screen.

  • Creative experimental play without the mess.
  • Black background for maximum contrast.
  • Clear presentation with no visual clutter.
  • Bright feedback for children with visual impairments.
  • Choose from three levels of difficulty (speed of the custard splodger).
  • Switch access options included (using available Bluetooth switch interfaces).
Hidden Grid

Hidden Grid

This activity has been designed to encourage exploration of the whole screen and teach basic touch and drag skills including options for single or multitouch. Drag your finger around the screen to reveal coloured shapes and patterns, with different sound effects that change pitch. When you lift your finger the tiles will fade.

Black background, different sound effects and bright colours make this a very motivating activity for children with visual impairments as well as being great fun for the very young. The great feedback makes this an ideal cause and effect activity that can help develop hand eye co-ordination.

  • Black background and bright colours ideal for low vision.
  • Single touch to encourage finger isolation and pointing - may be easier for some users to understand.
  • Multi-touch for maximum feedback.
  • Simple interaction and fun for very young children.
Hurdle Champion

Hurdle Champion

Choose a character and take part in a hurdle race against the computer. Works with a single switch or by touching the screen. This game provides a motivating way to develop switch and timing skills.

Choose from three levels of difficulty to give you a chance to improve you performance. A clear visual clue is shown to tell you when it is time to help your runner clear the hurdles by pressing a switch or touching the screen.

  • Helps with switch timing skills.
  • Learn to watch and wait for the right time to interact.
  • A great game for single switch users.
  • Three levels with a clear visual prompt to help you press the switch and clear the next hurdle.
  • Works with all currently available iPad switch interfaces.
More Crazy Cats

More Crazy Cats

Watch and wait for something on the screen to change. Touch the screen at the right time to make the Crazy Cats play a crazy tune.

This App has been designed for a broad range of students with learning difficulties who are learning to interact at the right time. It is ideal for those who have already gained an understanding of cause and effect and are ready for a new challenge. More Crazy Cats is good for encouraging attention and concentration for children with special needs.

Switch access for one or two switches is included. Switches can be connected via a Bluetooth switch interface.

  • Black background for maximum contrast.
  • Clear presentation with no visual clutter.
  • Choose from three levels of difficulty (reveal time).
  • Switch access options included (using available Bluetooth switch interfaces).
  • Single switch mode where each press at the appropriate time causes a response.
Peeping Musicians

Peeping Musicians

Has been designed to encourage early looking/observation skills and develop basic touch and targeting skills. Wait and watch for the musician as they ‘peep’ from the top, bottom or side of the screen. Simply touch them to make them move centre stage and play a piece of music. There are 20 different characters and instruments to find.

Black background and brightly coloured musicians provide great contrast making this activity very suitable for users with visual and perceptual difficulties. Peeping Musicians is a fun way to help a child to develop hand eye co-ordination and learn to use a touch screen.

  • Black background for maximum contrast with bright rewards.
  • Minimum distraction - screen blank until musician appears.
  • Encourage waiting for visual and auditory cue before touching screen.
  • Develop visual location skills.
  • Great for listening skills with real and fantasy musicians.
Space Shooter

Space Shooter

Stop the alien invasion with your space shooter – a real blast from the past. Fun for all with additional features to help children with special needs, this game can be played with a tap anywhere on the screen or by using a single external switch to zap the aliens. Clear the screen ready for the next wave.

  • Just touch the screen to play or use external switch
  • Interface and switch required for switch access, supports all currently available switch interfaces.
  • Beginner’s option to help children learn how to play by pausing when on target. Provides additional support for users with motor control difficulties.
  • Medium and hard options with more aliens and faster speeds.
  • Simple clear graphics with high contrast and black background make this game suitable for children with visual difficulties.
Splat The Clowns

Splat The Clowns

Touch the screen anywhere or press a switch to splat the clowns as they move across a target in the middle of the screen, splat five clowns to get a reward. What will you throw this time, ripe fruit, rotten cheese or a custard pie?

This accessible and inclusive game has been designed to encourage and develop hand-eye coordination and switch timing skills. Auditory prompts and a clear background with bright objects make this an ideal game for children with visual and perceptual difficulties. Choose the easy level and the clown will wait for you to throw! Switch input is accepted from all the currently available switch interfaces.

  • Ideal for early hand-eye coordination.
  • Auditory prompts and clear graphics for users with visual difficulties.
  • Easy skill level for error-less operation.
  • Hard level and speed control to increase difficulty.
  • A fun way to develop switch timing skills and anticipation.
  • Learn to wait - press too soon and the clown gets away.
Touch to Jump

Touch to Jump

Touch the musician to make them jump to the spotlight. Watch them move to centre stage and then entertain with their music. The clarity and bright colours are chosen to appeal to children with special needs, including cerebral visual impairment.

This App has been designed to provide visually attractive activities to encourage locating and targeting. With its bright, high contrast graphics and fun musical rewards it is an ideal way to help children with visual and perceptual difficulties develop their hand eye co-ordination.

The App provides a choice of levels to encourage more interaction and exploration of the screen to locate the musician. A visual and auditory cue is provided to prompt the user who may be having trouble locating the targets. Switch access for one or two switches is included. Switches can be connected via a Bluetooth switch interface.

  • Black background for maximum contrast.
  • Clear presentation with no visual clutter.
  • Twenty different musicians both real and fictional.
  • Choose from small or large targets.
  • Choose from three levels with two, three or five touches to jump to the spotlight on the centre stage.
  • Switch access options included (using available Bluetooth switch interfaces).
  • Single switch mode where each press causes a response.
  • Two switch mode offering a great introduction to two switch scanning. Press switch one to make single jumps to the target and the second switch has to be pressed for the final musical reward.
World Cup Soccer

World Cup Soccer

Can the striker score a goal in the World Cup in this simple timing activity? Touch the screen or press an external switch when the striker is in front of the goal. Score five goals to get a reward.

This accessible and inclusive game has been designed to encourage and develop hand-eye coordination and switch timing skills. Auditory prompts and a clear background with bright objects make this an ideal game for children with visual and perceptual difficulties. Choose the easy level and the player will wait for you to kick!

  • Ideal for early hand-eye coordination.
  • Auditory prompts and clear graphics for users with visual difficulties.
  • Easy skill level for error-less operation.
  • Hard level and speed control to increase difficulty.
  • A fun way to develop switch timing skills and anticipation.
  • Learn to wait - press too soon and the player misses.
  • Switch access for one switch is included. Switches can be connected via a Bluetooth switch interface.