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 <================= cut here =================> FILE: /info-mac/report/educational-software-kids.txt 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-== 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 vers…