Ballyland Sound Match

Name: Ballyland Sound Match
Price: 1.99 USD
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Phia Damsma

A game with sounds to match

$1.99 · Designed for iPad

1 Rating
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Phia Damsma
Language

EN
English
Size

87.3
MB

Fun and educational. While busy navigating the game to locate, memorize and match the sounds, children will get a basic understanding of how to navigate a digital grid. A fun and challenging sound-matching game for all, fully accessible for students with blindness and visual impairment. Challenge your listening and memory skills and try to beat your hi-score. As you navigate the digital game grid to locate, memorize and pair the matching sounds you will develop conceptual understanding of rows and columns – an essential skill for mathematics and other STEM subjects. Tips and full instructions for this app from the award winning ‘Ballyland’ suite of accessible educational game apps can be found on the Sonokids website. "As a teacher, working with children around the world, I have witnessed how Ballyland apps allow children with and without a visual impairment to play and learn together. Ballyland Sound Match is not only a fun game, but it also helps children to acquire important skills preparing them for use of technology and mathematics. I have combined the use of this app with tactile diagrams of grids, rows, and columns to create blended teaching, producing accessible multi-sensory learning that highly benefits children with blindness and vision impairment." Prof. Boguslaw Marek, Ph.D. OBE Founder of Hungry Fingers Specifications: • Inclusive audio game with built-in speech (self-voicing) and images • Digital game grid with spoken rows and columns • Three game modes (Drag, Flick, and Open Sounds & Flick) • Six sound sets, including the popular Ballylanders, musical instruments, cars and animals • “Black Curtain” option to block out images and create a level playing field for all • Screen reader accessible start page, self-voicing menus in the game • Fun, safe and supportive learning environment • Designed with feedback from parents, teachers, and children with blindness and low vision • Combine with tactile grids for blended teaching and accessible multi-sensory learning (optional) • Use at home and school. Develops: • Listening, Locating, Memory and Matching skills • Conceptual understanding of grids, rows and columns • Mathematics skills • Orientation and Spatial Awareness on a touch tablet • Fine motor skills • Finger gestures for screen reader accessibility • Experiential learning of screen reader accessibility by sighted players

Ratings & Reviews

3.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Room for improvement
11/07/2017

julie585
My son has CVI, educationally legally deafblind, age 11 with multiple physical handicaps. I was hoping the app would be slightly more inclusive. He generally uses apps geared toward ages 2-5 with specific traits. I’m looking for inclusive apps that are self-correcting with no negative reinforcements (error sounds) because my son tends to self-stimulate and has difficulty with compulsive light gazing (CVI) and auditory processing deficit as result of early hearing loss & seizures. Also no background music 🎶 is better than background music that can’t be shut off or volume adjusted... just some ideas for developers out there. I would love to beta test new apps so please reply here if you’re interested for future updates!
Room for improvement
11/07/2017

julie585

My son has CVI, educationally legally deafblind, age 11 with multiple physical handicaps. I was hoping the app would be slightly more inclusive. He generally uses apps geared toward ages 2-5 with specific traits. I’m looking for inclusive apps that are self-correcting with no negative reinforcements (error sounds) because my son tends to self-stimulate and has difficulty with compulsive light gazing (CVI) and auditory processing deficit as result of early hearing loss & seizures. Also no background music 🎶 is better than background music that can’t be shut off or volume adjusted... just some ideas for developers out there. I would love to beta test new apps so please reply here if you’re interested for future updates!