Tools to Support Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness

This is a handheld video magnifier. It is compact, lightweight and portable. It has two viewing modes: Reading and Distance. Students use it to magnify their reading materials and look at what is posted on the walls, chalkboard, or whiteboard. .It has 2X to 14X magnification.

This is an 8-inch handheld video magnifiery. It is lightweight and portable. It has 2X to 30X magnification. Again, I can be used for distance viewing (like the chalkboard) and near view of reading materials.

This is a luggable video magnifier. It provides 3 viewing modes: reading, distance, and self-view. Often a device like this one is provided to younger students as they are slightly more rugged that other types of magnification devices.

This is a compact all-in-one magnifier combined with an android tablet. It is a powerful support for students with visual impairments. With the MATT connect a student can magnify a print document, read a book for an online library, conduct research view a smartboard, write and email assignments, and take a test.

It is lightweight and portable. It has 1X to 80X magnification. For distance viewing, you need an external camera.

This is considered a braillenote taker. This device allows a person to enter braille on the touch screen or the student can use the Perkins Style Keyboard. This is a powerful tool for student, who can use braille. It has an 18 cell refreshable braille display. Students can use it to read and write documents, keep their calendar, maintain databases of information important, read and write e-mail, access the Internet, read books from a variety of sources, listen to their favorite FM radio station, or play music from their own collection. This is built on an android backbone and has access to Humanware’s Keysoft operating system and also the full range of options from the Google Play store.

This is another braillenotetaker. It uses a Perkins style keyboard for data entry. It has a refreshable braille display. Like the BrailleNote Touch Plus, students can use it to read and write documents, keep their calendar, maintain databases of information important, read and write e-mail, access the Internet, read books from a variety of sources, listen to their favorite FM radio station, or play music from their own collection. BrailleSense Polaris supports Google Apps, making it easy to utilize Google services like Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides as millions of other students do everyday.

Braille displays provide access to information on a computer, tablet or phone screen by electronically raising and lowering different combinations of pins in braille cells. It is refreshable in that it changes continuously as the user moves the cursor around.

This device is lightweight. It can have upto 5 Bluetooth connections so that you can connect to iOS and Android devices such as smart phones or iPads. You can use the Perkins style keyboard to input information to your computer, phone, or tablet.

The Taptilo is an interactive way to teach young student about braille. It has large braille blocks that can be manipulated by a child, which can help strengthen and refine finger movement. There are games and activities for them to reinforce the learning process.

• How to use Taptilo

• Play Taptilo and learn braille

Fully accessible handheld graphing calculator. The orbit unit added to the TI-84 calculator allows for a screen reader to read the mathematical information displayed on the screen. There is full access to graphs through speech output of the coordinated and different sounds for the negative and axis crossing points. It uses haptic feedback for multi-modal visualization of the graph.

This video is from a college student, who is describing the apps that are on her iPad and iPhone. Here's a link to information on all the apps she discussed: https://bit.ly/36kgiO1.

• List of some of the apps that we keep on our training ipads.Here is a list of 12 apps for learners who are blind or visually impaired from Paths to Literacy.