Virtual Motor Skills
by Judy Lynn Software, Inc
Give the user with limited motor skills the virtual experience of performing tasks by picking up, putting down, and moving objects around
Now available with Classroom Licence option for use on unlimited computers in the same classroom!
With Virtual Motor Skills students with limited motor skills can experience picking objects up, putting them down, and moving them around using 1 or 2 switches, a mouse click, or the computer keyboard. In many of the activities, the user controls a life-like hand to complete tasks such as picking up coloured pegs and placing them in their matching coloured slots.
Sounds like it may be difficult or too complex?
Well, it couldn’t be easier.
In the example of the pegboard, the hand will hover over the pegboard. If the hand is over a peg, pressing the switch will pick up the peg. If the hand is holding a peg and a switch is pressed, it will put the peg down. It’s that simple.
If using 2 switches, pressing the first switch will move the hand, pressing the second switch will either pick up or put down the peg. If using 1 switch, the hand will move from one slot to the next automatically and stop for a pre-specified number of seconds. Pressing the switch will either pick up or put down the peg.
The program is composed of the following 27 tasks that involve sorting, matching, sequencing, scanning, hand-eye coordination and vocational themes:
- 5 Different Pegboard activities with various degrees of difficulty
- Put in the light bulbs
- Put the lollypops on the sticks
- Put the tennis balls into the can
- Put the paper into the printer
- Pick up the rubbish and throw it into the garbage can
- Put all the coins into the piggy bank
- Put the groceries into the shopping bag
- Put the crayons into the crayon box
- Put the wafers into the box
- Pour the grape juice into the cups
- Hammer the nails into the wood
- Stack the blocks to build one big tower
- Match the shoes
- Put the rings on the peg in size order with the biggest on the bottom
- Sharpen the pencils and put them into the pencil holder
- Put the coloured boxes over the matching colour word
- Sort the objects into the containers with the same shape
- Sort the nuts and bolts
- Sort the silverware
- Put the bottles and cans into the proper recycling container
- Point to the numbers from lowest to highest
- Point to the letters in alphabetical order
Requirements and ResourcesexpandClick to collapse
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP
- Hard Drive Space: 50 MB
- Display: 16 bit (64,000) hi colours 1024×768 screen resolution
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Virtual Motor Skills is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Childhood
- Early Primary
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
Virtual Motor Skills is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Cause-and-effect
- Choosing with a switch
Users can access Virtual Motor Skills in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Single Switch
- Multiple Switches
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