Touch Tutorial - Elderly, Autism & Special Education

Touch Tutorial was designed by a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) to teach users with little to no experience with new technology how to use touchscreens.

Touchscreens, like those found on ipads, iphones, ipod touches or other devices, are being used more and more frequently in every day society.

This application uses easy to understand language and icons to teach foundational skills and then builds on these skills so that the user learns many of the common gestures necessary to operate a touchscreen device.

This tutorial introduces several common gestures using a different target, or symbol, to prompt each different gesture. Targets are introduced with their corresponding gestures, when the unique target appears the user taps, touches or slides it with the gesture associated with it.

After each target is introduced the user gets a chance to hone their new skills by playing a game.

AppAdvice.com calls Touch Tutorial "an app for those with learning disabilities or spectrum disorders" and describes it as “an app that include[s] more people into our technological world, rather than exclude[s] them because they couldn’t keep up otherwise” - AppAdvice.com