Useful Apps for Vision Professionals
Submitted by Linda Mamer on May 31, 2015
There are many applications (apps) available to assist teachers of students with visual impairments and other vision professionals in their work. I have collected some of my favorite apps in the following categories:
Click here to download the list of recommended vision and hearing apps in .pdf format.
Apps for Vision Information
| Take care of your vision by personalizing the app to receive reminders, order your contact lenses, claim offers and discounts and organize all your appointments in one location. | |
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Diagnostic and treatment reference app for eye care professionals. |
| Clinical images of virtually all eye diseases. | |
| Dok's free Snellen Eye Chart is part of a larger collection of useful medical tools and references. | |
| This app was developed to allow people with healthy vision to see the world through the eyes of a person experiencing one of nine degenerative eye diseases. | |
| These series of images in this app are designed to provide a test which gives a quick assessment of color vision deficiency of congenital origin. | |
| Color vision simulation tool which simulates the color vision of color vision deficiencies. | |
| Rotate your device like a steering wheel and you'll go through the whole spectrum of hues/colors. | |
| This simple test of your vision can alert you to early changes that may indicate a problem with your macula caused by diabetes or macular degeneration. | |
| This app contains high contrast pictures in flashcard format, designed for newborns and babies. | |
| This app displays simple animated patterns designed to appeal to babies' developing visual systems. | |
| Bringing the famous Snellen's eye chart to IOS, this app is used by eye care professionals and others to measure visual acuity. | |
| Designed to help normal, blind and color blind individuals to identify/decide color names for every day objects. |
Vision Lights and Magnifiers
| Reading glasses tool for people who have difficulty reading fine print and focusing on nearby objects due to presbyopia, eye illness, etc. | |
| Instantly turn your iPhone into the brightest possible Flashlight. | |
| Use the ENTIRE screen as a BIG magnifying glass. | |
| Digital magnifier with flashlight. | |
| 12x Photo-Quality Zoom and one-tap access to Satellite Aerial View. | |
| This app transforms any natural or artificial light source it encounters into sound. |
Visual Scanning Ideas
| Game where users learn about animals and feed/take care of them. | |
| Play unlimited high quality word search puzzles, with user selected themes. | |
| Game: Using glow lights to highlight the hockey game, easy to play, hard to master. | |
| High contrast animated images and great sound effects designed to provide visual stimulation and to develop and assess visual preferences. | |
| Pocket Bowling 3D comes with a power packed Bowling games in 3Dimension View. It is well designed with all aspects of a standard bowling game, to give users an awesome gaming experience. | |
| Black background and brightly coloured musicians provide great contrast making this activity very suitable for users with visual and perceptual difficulties. | |
| Activities on this app improves the eye muscle usage by following the moving object by rolling eyeball only. | |
| Tap on your device to make the fish swim. | |
| In this game, players tap the black tiles to create musical notes, and lose if they tap the white tiles. |
Braille
| This app promotes learning of standard braille code. |
Please note that you may need to check whether the app has been updated or whether it only works with certain operating systems.
Comments
This app is also a better vision app
Super Zoom app