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Online Activities Using Two Switch Scanning
(Step Scanning)

 

With two switch scanning, one switch moves through choices, the other switch selects an item.

To use two switches on the computer, you need a switch interface that has jacks for Space, Enter, and Tab such as:

Don Johnstons Switch Interface Pro or the StealthSwitch AT

 

1) HelpKidzLearn.com - Activities from Inclusive TLC
Note: After clicking play on the title screen, click on options at the top left, then click Switch Access and choose two switch scanning, then click play at the bottom of the screen.

All activities on this website use:

Space = Move
Enter = Select

Aunty Maggie's Recipe - simple game - great around Halloween time.
Cookery Quiz: Sandwich - game with choices on how to make a sandwich.
Auditory and visual scanning.
Cookery Quiz: Baked Potato - multiple choice quiz following the sequence.
Auditory and visual scanning.
Shopping Time Game Do you know what you can buy in different shops?
Has auditory and visual scanning.
Build Sandcastle
Mosaic Painter

Reflections - A visual multiple choice quiz.
Train Tracker - Make train track and run train on track.

Unwrap Christmas Presents - Choose a present to hear a holiday songs.

 

 

2) Activities from Papunet.net

Space = Move

Enter = Select
Memory Games Choice of pictures (drawing, photos, symbols, and more), color, shapes or number matching!

Coloring Activities

Puzzles - Even make puzzles from your own pictures!!



3) Priory Woods

Tab = Move

Space or Enter = Select

Bugz - Counting Game
Animal Activities Match, find, or count

Shape Activities - Match, find, count, or build
African Sound Safari - Hear animal sounds

Talking StoryBooks (These may work better if downloaded rather than played in a browser.)

 

 

4) MightyBook Silly Jokes

Tab = Move

Enter = Select

 

5) Triptico

Tab = Move

Enter = Select

Simon Style Memory Game
Free online scanning Calculator!

  

6) BBC Accessible Newsreader
Tab = Move

Enter = Select


7) Online Talking Stories
Pick a story and get the first page started 

Tab = Move

Enter = Select

 

8) TarHeel Reader

Click here to read about switch access to this site.

Space = moves through choices on choice pages; goes to next page on book reading pages.

Enter = select on choice page, go back a page on book reading pages.

 

9) Switch Accessible YouTube!

Note: This site requires switch jacks for the right arrow and up arrow options.
Right Arrow - Move

Up Arrow - Choose

 

10) Initial Letter Sounds Activity from kiddo.net

Tab = Move

Enter = Select

 

11) Christmas Holiday Stories
Choose Hear Story version for story to be read aloud

Pick a story and get the first page started

Tab = Move

Enter = Select

 

 

 

Thanks to Kate Ahern for sharing so many resources in her great blog, Teaching Learners With Special Needs