Ballyland Geluiden Match

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About this game

In this Match game, you have to match two identical sounds. Children with a visual impairment can challenge sighted friends and family, especially when the ‘Black Curtain’ covers the screen! Through play, children learn important skills such as listening carefully, thinking logically, remembering locations and sounds, matching (what belongs together), navigating the tactile screen with finger movements, and orienting themselves in the playing field consisting of rows and columns. A good preparation for digital mathematical tables and ‘coding’ (= programming).

The original English version of this app, from the award-winning Sonokids Ballyland series, is used with great success in education worldwide.

“In my work as a teacher all over the world, I have been able to experience firsthand how children with and without visual impairments can play and learn together with the Ballyland apps. Ballyland Sound Match is not only a fun game, but this app also helps children develop concepts that are important for their success in technology and mathematics, and in other fields.”

Prof. Bogusław ‘Bob’ Marek, Ph.D., Order of the British Empire,

Fundacja HUNGRY FINGERS, Poland

Specifications:

• Sound game with sound effects, song, and built-in speech

• Digital playing field with spoken rows and columns

• Choice of six different sound sets in the Match game, such as animals and musical instruments

• Three play modes (Drag, Swipe, and Open Sounds & Swipe)

• Various difficulty levels number of cards
• ‘Black Curtain’ stand gives everyone equal opportunities
• Home page accessible with the built-in screen reader program
• Safe, fun, and supportive learning environment
• Developed with input from adults and children with a visual impairment, parents, and teachers

• For home and school

Learning outcomes:

• Orientation and spatial insight on a touch tablet
• Listening skills
• Finding, remembering, and combining sounds
• Concepts of a digital ‘table’ with rows and columns
• Fine motor skills
• Finger gestures of the screen reader program
• Players experience how accessible navigation works.

What’s new

- Eerste release van Ballyland Geluiden Match