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Vision plays an essential role in development, and in recent years our understanding of the close relationship between vision and other areas of development has increased considerably. Touch-system for Visually Impaired Children (TouchVIC) is a Mobile application designed to be used as a support tool in the early stimulation of visually impaired children. It includes nine kinds of different activities for iPad, which are intended to stimulate cognitive, emotional, sensorial and motor aspects; as well as an authoring tool which allows the customization and configuration of exercises in order to adapt them to the child’s interests, needs and abilities at all times. It also has options which allow the creation of customized agendas, where activities and evaluation sessions can be sequenced and planned. Another outstanding feature of TouchVic is that it is one of the first Apps of its kind in that it is really inclusive and accessible for professionals or family members who are visually impaired.
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The authors would like to thank the Campus of International Excellence Biotic of the University of Granada, the Regional Excellence Project TIC-6600, the collaboration of the ACCEDO group (ONCE) and the accessibility experts of the Macneticos Group, and the users that provided the TouchVIC results detailed in this paper.
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Torres, M.V.H., Almendros, M.L.R., Fórtiz, M.J.R., Domínguez, C.R., Bermúdez-Edo, M. (2016). Early Stimulation with Tactile Devices of Visually Impaired Children. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_12
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