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BlindSquare is primarily an orientation tool. It uses Foursquare and OpenStreetMap to give you information about your environment when outdoors, or Bluetooth beacons if they have been installed to help you navigate indoors. As the primary focus is providing information about the environment, it is best paired with another GPS app such as Google or Apple Maps which can provide turn-by-turn directions that supplement the information. The app is very powerful and customizable, allowing you to choose exactly how much information you would like to receive as well as how that information is conveyed.

BlindSquare App Overview

Google Lookout is very similar to Seeing AI for iOS. The app allows someone who is blind or visually impaired to use the camera on an Android device to get information about the world. The app currently supports 5 modes. These are food labels, text, document, explore, and currency.

Lookout By Google App Overview

The yoga app called Down Dog is a standout in the yoga app world with several notable features that are particularly useful and important to persons with disabilities and persons with special medical needs.

Yoga Down Dog App Overview

Excercise Buddy

Carely

Google Maps is a free, interactive digital map for navigation. It is often used for looking up an address and getting directions from your current location. 

Google Maps

Google Maps es un mapa digital interactivo y gratuito para la navegación. A menudo se utiliza para buscar una dirección y obtener direcciones desde su ubicación actual. 

Google Maps - Spanish

SeeingAI is a completely free app that describes the world around you using artificial intelligence via your device’s built-in camera. This app helps people with vision impairments understand what is around them. 

SeeingAI

SeeingAI es una aplicación completamente gratuita que describe el mundo que te rodea utilizando inteligencia artificial a través de la cámara incorporada de tu dispositivo. Esta aplicación ayuda a las personas con discapacidad visual a comprender lo que les rodea. 

SeeingAI - Spanish

TD Snap is a robust, symbol-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app. This app benefits a wide range of clients, truly of all ages and abilities. 

TD Snap

TD SNAP es una aplicación robusta de comunicación alternativa y aumentativa (AAC) basada en símbolos. Esta aplicación beneficia a una amplia gama de clientes, realmente de todas las edades y habilidades. 

TD Snap - Spanish

 This app is a collaboration tool that helps you organize your to-dos, projects, and other lists onto "cards" and "boards". This tool helps the user see what projects are in progress, who is working on what, and how far along each project is.

Trello

StepByStep is an app designed to evaluate and facilitate sequencing skills. It was designed by an occupational therapist and can be used with both adults and children. It is appropriate for users of all ages with impaired or developing cognitive skills.

StepbyStep

Attainment's Social Success is a wonderful social-skills training tool to help adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for social independence. This app provides interactive tutorials on five topics that are relevant to daily living: at school, with friends, important skills, using technology and at work. Each of these topics explores key subtopics, such as asking for help, appropriate text messaging, safety at home, etc. 

Social Success

RightHear is a free navigation tool for users with visual impairments. It helps users easily orient themselves in all environments by providing information about their environment when outdoors and indoors (where Bluetooth beacons are installed). 

RightHear

Talking Typer is an iOS version of the Talking Typer Windows program made by The American Printing House for the Blind. The app is a typing tool that can help people learn to type on a computer keyboard. The program includes 35 typing lessons with the possibility to create new lessons or edit existing ones. Lessons can be tailored to an individual’s specific requirements or needs. Before opening and using Talking Typer, it is recommended to connect a Bluetooth keyboard to the iOS device. The app works with the touchscreen keyboard, but a hardware keyboard will make it easier to use. It also makes much more sense than a software keyboard, considering the program is designed to teach one how to better utilize a hardware keyboard.

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Talking Typer

A small team of caring individuals dedicated to bridging the gap between technology and people with disabilities.

Talking Typer

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