Ballyland Sound Match

A fun and challenging sound-matching game for all, fully accessible for students with blindness and visual impairment. Challenge your listening and memory skills and try to beat your hi-score. As you navigate the digital game grid to locate, memorize and pair the matching sounds you will develop conceptual understanding of rows and columns – an essential skill for mathematics and other STEM subjects.

Tips and full instructions for this app from the award winning ‘Ballyland’ suite of accessible educational game apps can be found on the Sonokids website.

"As a teacher, working with children around the world, I have witnessed how Ballyland apps allow children with and without a visual impairment to play and learn together. Ballyland Sound Match is not only a fun game, but it also helps children to acquire important skills preparing them for use of technology and mathematics. I have combined the use of this app with tactile diagrams of grids, rows, and columns to create blended teaching, producing accessible multi-sensory learning that highly benefits children with blindness and vision impairment."
Prof. Boguslaw Marek, Ph.D. OBE
Fundacja HUNGRY FINGERS, Poland

Specifications:
• Inclusive audio game with built-in speech (self-voicing) and images
• Digital game grid with spoken rows and columns
• Three game modes (Drag, Flick, and Open Sounds & Flick)
• Six sound sets, including the popular Ballylanders, musical instruments, cars and animals
• “Black Curtain” option to block out images and create a level playing field for all
• Screen reader accessible start page, self-voicing menus in the game
• Fun, safe and supportive learning environment
• Designed with feedback from parents, teachers, and children with blindness and low vision
• Combine with tactile grids for blended teaching and accessible multi-sensory learning (optional)
• Use at home and school.

Develops:
• Listening, Locating, Memory and Matching skills
• Conceptual understanding of grids, rows and columns
• Mathematics skills
• Orientation and Spatial Awareness on a touch tablet
• Fine motor skills
• Finger gestures for screen reader accessibility
• Experiential learning of screen reader accessibility by sighted players