Educational Software Kids

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 13:30 +0200 
From: ILANS%HUJIDS@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL
Subject: [*] Educational Software for Disabled children (Summary) 

Resubmission of SUMMARY of responses.

With the help of:

Jay Kahn, jkahn@mitre.org
Graeme Forbes, <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
wolfson@ll.mit.edu (Harry Wolfson)

Thank you all

Ilan Szekely, Compter Lab, Faculty of Dentistry
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. internet: ILANS@ds.huji.ac.il

Please archive as /info-mac/report/educational-software-kids.txt
and delete /report/disabled-children-software.txt


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Subject: Educational Software for disabled children (summary)

With the help of:

Jay Kahn, jkahn@mitre.org
Graeme Forbes, <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
wolfson@ll.mit.edu (Harry Wolfson)

Thanks to you all

Ilan Szekely, Compter Lab, Faculty of Dentistry
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. internet: ILANS@ds.huji.ac.il
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From: BITNET%"wolfson@ll.mit.edu (Harry Wolfson)" 20-APR-1993
Subj: Re: Educational Software for disabled children

Hi Ilan,

I saw your request for shareware educational / games for kids with
motor disabilities (I assume that the kids are using some sort of
"single switch" device like a puffer switch or chin switch, etc.).
I have seen very few shareware games but there is a commercial
company called "Don Johnston Software" that sells hardware and
software for single-switching for Macs and older Apples. I don't
have the address here at work, but I can get it for you if you'ld like.

The BMUG BBS in Boston,Mass. has an area for discussion of computers
and disabilities. They have a very small collection of software, but I
don't know what sort of things that they have.

I saw a HyperCard stack called "Dave's Stack" (I think) that was
written for a quadrapalegic (sp?) that let him communicate by
selecting common phrases (e.g. I'm thirsty, Read to me) or type
from an alphabet using a single-switch. If you are interested
I could dig it up and send it along.

I wrote a fairly simplistic eduucational game a few years ago
to help my son learn how to tell time from an analog clock. It
displays a clock face and the child selects a button to guess the
right time. At the request of a friend who works with disabled
kids, I added single switching capability to it. The program is
called Time Teacher (v1.1.3 added single switching capability).
I can send it along if you'ld like. It is black & white and has
very simple sounds and rudimentary graphics.

There are a few games that I saw that were written for very young
children that could (probably) be used with a single switch. When
any key is pressed, a colored shape is displayed on the screen and
a funny noise is played. An overpriced shareware version is called
"BabySmash". I wrote a slightly better version (but never released it)
called "Baby Don't Drool" (meant as a joke). I saw a *much* better version
that was released as freeware. Unfortunately, I forgot the name, but I
probably have it at home.

Let me know if your interested in any of these.

Harry Wolfson
wolfson@ll.mit.edu
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From: BITNET%"jkahn@mitre.org" 20-APR-1993 23:47:10.05
Subj:	Educational Software

This is from Home and School and can be found on sumex in infomac/report/
as home-and-school ....date.  It stopped coming about a year ago, but they
are still out there, distributing mainly by disk.

For more details, contact them direct, not me.  HOWEVER, I AM INTERESTED IN
A SUMMARY SO I CAN PASS IT ON TO A SCHOOL FOR HANDICAPPED KIDS.

Jay Kahn

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From: Graeme Forbes <PL0BALF@VM.TCS.Tulane.EDU>
Subject: Educational Software for the Mac (A)

Apple itself publishes a heavy tome called the "Mac Educational Software
Guide". You can get it by writing to "Mac Ed Sftwr Guide, Apple, 20330
Stevens Creek Blvd, M/S 36-AN, Cupertino, CA 95014.

Graeme Forbes

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