Blindfold Student Pack 1

Blindfold Student Pack 1: Navigation skills is a bundle of apps designed to help visually impaired students master iPhone and iPad gestures and navigation skills. This pack is designed for schools to use their educational discounts to purchase these popular skill-building games.

This pack comprises 4 popular Blindfold Games: Bop Gesture, Sea Battle, 3-D Tic Tac Toe and Barnyard. All these apps were featured in Dianne Brauner's blog at Perkin's Path To Technologies, and she explains how to use these apps to help students improve their skills.

In many schools for the blind, you’ll often find the Bop-It toy out on a table, or in a closet. Blindfold Bop Gesture is an app similar to that. It starts out with easy mode where you are told to make one gesture every 20 seconds, for a total of 5 gestures. The gestures are simple: tap with 1 finger, tap with 2 fingers, swipe in any direction, or shake the phone. You get one point for each correct gesture, and the game is over after 3 mistakes. If you didn’t make 3 mistakes, you move to the next level, where the gestures come a little faster, about every 15 seconds, and you get two points for each correct gesture. Each level is a little faster than the prior, and the points go up.

Students who are visually impaired or blind often struggle with spatial concepts, which can impact math skills and orientation and mobility skills. Blindfold 3D Tic Tac Toe was created specifically to provide students with visual impairments and blindnesss an opportunity to practice digital grid concepts through a familiar game.

Blindfold Sea Battle is similar to the game Battleship and it reinforces grid concepts.

Blindfold Barnyard is a fully accessible audio game where you are a farmer trying to move your animals into a barn, and it is used to reinforce the O&M concept of cardinal directions. You explore the barnyard with your finger to find the cows, sheep, chicken and other animals. Drag the animals to the north, south, east or west fences. Once you have hitched the animals to a fence, swipe that fence with two fingers to move the animals into their barn.