Tool Factory is a leader in innovative educational technology with a mission to “improve US education by providing superior educational software, hardware, staff development options, and a selection of special education products.” One product provided on their website is their Switch Software Bundle.
The Switch Software Bundle is one of several products within their category: Interactive Special Needs Software. When you visit this category, you’ll have the option to purchase the software by individual titles and sets, or in a software bundle!
One bundle (out of 8) available is Tool Factory’s Switch Software Bundle. I wanted to write about this one particularly since it was designed for switch use. This bundle features 15 different early learning and special educational programs.
Switch Software Bundle’s Programs:
- Listening Skills:
- Students work with objects, words, and numbers to develop and practice auditory skills.
- Memory Skills:
- Features 4 activities to help build confidence and short-term memory skills.
- Sorting Skills:
- Students work with objects, letters, and numbers to develop sorting skills.
- Identification Skills:
- Builds word-to-picture association using search, color, size and match activities.
- Matching Skills:
- Strengthen color, shape and size matching skills with 4 unique activities.
- Eye Track:
- Help strengthen visual perception skills by training students to recognize, recall, discriminate, and make meaning of what they see.
- Sound Beginnings Making Sounds:
- By focusing on the building blocks of speech, students move objects on the screen using their voices.
- Helps develop communication skills and vocalization
- By focusing on the building blocks of speech, students move objects on the screen using their voices.
- A Busy Day:
- Focuses on concrete everyday language as users practice reading, writing, and communication skills.
- Touch It Transport:
- Students work on hand-eye coordination skills as they select moving images of transportation objects in a completely wordless interface.
- Letter Olympics:
- Assists with the discrimination between the consonants “b” and “d”.
- ReacTickles 2:
- “Simple, interactive, textless activities allow users to freely explore dynamic interactions without judgment or fear.”
- Think About! 1:
- Explore everyday life within animated stories promoting reading comprehension through true or false questions, sequencing, matching, and recollection activities.
- Observation Skills:
- Students reinforce skills they need to understand pattern and shape, helping in the development of observational skills.
- FacePaint 2:
- By using images or text, students can create silly faces while developing language and self-expression.
- Monkeys, Ducks, and Frogs:
- 21 fun-filled activities developed to improve counting, basic math skills, and computer skills.
Click here to learn more about the Switch Software Bundle.
Other Special Needs Software Bundles:
- Early Learning Software Bundle
- Reading Intervention Software Bundle
- Interactive Science Bundle for Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Pre-Reading/Lower Functioning Software Bundle
- Comprehensive Special Needs Software Bundle for Interactive Devices
- Severe and Profound Disabilities Software Bundle for Interactive Devices
- Autism Software Bundle