Assessment tools
Instruments practitioners use to evaluate skills and needs — test kits, record forms, screening protocols, and scoring manuals for vision, communication, and learning assessments.
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Gaze Viewer
Gaze Viewer is software that records where a person looks while they use a Tobii Dynavox eye tracker. It can capture this from many kinds of applications, including web pages, e-books, and games. You can save the results as images or videos, which makes it easier to look back at eye tracking skills and compare progress over time. It's meant for a therapist, teacher, or family member who wants to see how someone is using their eyes to control a computer. It needs a Tobii Dynavox eye tracker to work. It comes with or can be added to some eye gaze devices, such as the I-Series and PCEye, and it is also sold as standalone software.
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Switch Assessment Kits
$1,124.95
These switch assessment kits come as a carrying chest of different switches, so a clinician can try several types of body movement and access methods with one person. Kit #1 holds a mix of switches, including a Grip & Puff, Ultimate, Tilt, Jumbo, Gumball, Mini-Gumball, Adjustable Angled, Pinch, Thumb, and Plate switch. Kit #2 includes everything in Kit #1 and adds a Sound Activated Switch and a Sip & Puff Switch, which suits people with more involved needs. The kits are for trying out which switch works best for someone, so they are a tool for the person doing the evaluation rather than something to buy for everyday use.
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Assessment Switch Kit
Est. $400–$900
This kit puts a range of different switches in one plastic carrying box so a clinician can try several and see which one a person can use most reliably. The switches work in different ways, including waving a hand near a sensor, tapping a flat pad, pressing a button, moving the chin, and a finger-mounted button. Some give a click or touch cue and some need almost no pressure. This is a tool for the person doing the evaluation, not a switch to hand to a user to keep. You'll still need a device for the switches to control, and the list shown is partial, so check the full contents before ordering.
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Standard Switch Kit
Est. $400–$750
This kit gathers 13 wired switches in one durable plastic box so you can try different options with the same person before buying any of them. The switches vary in size, activation force, and feel. They range from large buttons with a 125mm pressing surface to small, light-touch and precise-target designs for someone with limited movement. Because it's a trial and assessment set, it works best when someone experienced in switch access helps match each switch to the person's reliable movement. These are wired switches, so you'll need a device or interface to plug them into before they do anything.
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Communication Assessment Bundle
Est. $400–$900
This bundle puts a range of simple voice-output devices in one package so you can try different ways of communicating before choosing one. It includes single-message buttons (BIGmack, LITTLEmack, GoTalk Button), a two-message and a four-message communicator with levels, a three-level step-by-step device, a talking photo album, a multi-message recorder, and a QuickTalker FT7. It suits teams or families who want to compare options for someone who is just starting to communicate with recorded speech. These are recorded-message devices, not full speech systems, so they work best as a way to explore and assess before moving to something more complete.
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Williams Sound Proloop FSM Measurer of Induction Loops Systems
$520.00
The Proloop FSM Plus is a handheld meter that checks how strong and clean the magnetic signal is in a hearing loop system, following the IEC 60118-4:2006 standard. It reports readings for output level, frequency response, automatic gain control, distortion, and background noise. You can also plug in headphones to listen to the loop and judge the sound by ear. This is a testing tool for installers and audiologists, not a listening device for someone with hearing loss. It runs on two AA batteries, and the headphones are not included.
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Amsler Grid 50-Sheet Pad With Magnet
$3.95
This is a pad of 50 paper Amsler grid sheets, each 6.5" x 5.5", for checking your own vision at home. You look at the grid, mark anything that looks off on the sheet, and bring the marked sheets to your eye care professional to review. A magnet on the back of the pad lets you hang it at a steady spot. It's a simple tracking aid for noticing changes over time, not a diagnosis, so the results need to be read by a professional.
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Basic Eye Mask
$3.95
This eye mask blocks out sight so a person can practice getting around without vision. It's sold with orientation and mobility instructors in mind, especially those who need to buy masks in bulk for training sessions. It is machine washable, and the double straps hold it in place. The mask is only the blindfold. Using it well in training depends on the instructor's lesson plan and technique.
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Zimmerman Low Vision Simulation Kit
$465.00
The Zimmerman Low Vision Simulation Kit lets a sighted person experience a range of vision conditions by wearing the goggles and lenses. It is a teaching tool for instructors, eye care and rehabilitation professionals, and anyone running workshops or training on low vision. You can create 11 different simulations, including four levels of acuity loss, three degrees of tunnel vision, and lenses for macular degeneration, cataracts, scotomas (blind spots), and bilateral hemianopsia. Everything comes in an attaché carrying case. These are approximate simulations meant for teaching and awareness, so they show what a condition can look like, not exactly what any one person sees.
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Ambutech Tandem Bar Mobility Training Guide
$19.28
The Tandem Bar is a rigid, lightweight fiberglass shaft that clips onto an instructor's white cane and a student's white cane just above the tips. When the instructor moves their cane, the student feels that same motion in their own cane. This lets an Orientation and Mobility instructor show good cane technique by hand, such as a steady arc, shore lining, obstacle detection, and stair skills, and helps build muscle memory through repetition. It works with both children and adults. It's a teaching tool for instructors, not a cane for everyday travel, and it only works if you already have two canes to connect. When not in use, it clips to the instructor's cane just under the grip.
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ISAVE: OccluderPop Pack (3-pack)
$4.00
This pack has three lollipop-style occluders, each a small paddle held up to cover one eye so the other eye can be tested on its own. It is meant for visual assessment, where a clinician or teacher needs to check how well each eye sees. The same occluder is also included in APH's ISAVE assessment kit, so this pack works as a way to restock or add spares.
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Collaborative Assessment: Working with Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired, Including Those with Additional Disabilities
$41.95
This is a professional guide on assessing students who are blind or visually impaired, including students who also have other disabilities. It helps teachers and other professionals understand how a visual impairment can affect what an assessment shows about a student's learning potential. The text is written for the people doing the assessing, not for students or families to use on their own. It is made to order or sold as a digital book, and the digital version needs an EPUB reader to open.
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TADPOLE: Interactive Images eBook
TADPOLE: Interactive Images is an eBook of tablet-based visual activities that teachers can use to check and build a child's visual skills. The activities center on everyday play and daily-life scenes, and they cover things like figure-ground discrimination (picking an object out of a busy background), visual attention and memory, eye-hand coordination, object recognition, visual sequencing, and simple cause and effect. It also supports size and shape identification and color and shape matching. It's built for tablets and meant to replace the earlier TADPOLE set, and the iBook is a free download from the App Store.
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Jerry Johns Basic Reading Inventory
$241.00
The Jerry Johns Basic Reading Inventory (12th edition) is an informal assessment teachers use to look at how a student reads and how well they understand what they hear. It's a tool for the person doing the evaluating, not something a student uses on their own.
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Teacher's Pet Online
Teacher's Pet Online is free software that lets a teacher or parent build drills, practice exercises, or tests that a student who is blind or has low vision can use. It runs in a web browser, so there is nothing to install. It is a tool for the adult to author the material, not a set of ready-made lessons, so you will need to write the content yourself.
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Brigance: Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills II – Contracted Braille
$1,370.00
This is a contracted braille edition of the Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills II, an assessment that checks how well a student has mastered selected academic skills. It's criterion-referenced, meaning it measures a student against skill benchmarks, not against other students. Teachers and evaluators use the results for educational planning, so it fits a school team working with a student who reads braille. It's an assessment kit for trained professionals to give and score, not a workbook for a student to use on their own.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: Second Grade: Posttest Teacher's Manual, Braille
$14.27
This is the braille teacher's manual for the posttest in the Building on Patterns primary braille literacy program, second grade. It's meant for the teacher who gives the posttest, and it's one piece of the second grade program rather than a stand-alone course. Because it's a testing component, it's best suited to a teacher of students with visual impairments who is already using this program.
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KeyMath-3 Braille Student Kit, Uncontracted Edition
$293.25
This is the braille student kit for KeyMath-3, a diagnostic math assessment for students from pre-K through ninth grade. It is built for braille readers, in the uncontracted edition. It measures core math concepts and skills and is aligned with the NCTM standards. The Teacher Guides are not part of this kit and are sold separately, so a clinician or teacher will need those to give and score the test.
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KeyMath-3 Large Print Kit
$395.17
The KeyMath-3 Large Print Kit is a diagnostic math assessment for students from pre-K through ninth grade who need test materials in large print. It measures key math concepts and skills and lines up with the NCTM standards (the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics benchmarks). This is a clinician's or educator's testing instrument, not something a family uses on its own, and it is meant to be given and scored by a trained examiner.
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Building on Patterns, Prekindergarten: Monitoring Charts and Reading Roundup Consumables
$14.80
This is a set of printed charts for tracking and recording a child's progress in the Building on Patterns, Prekindergarten program. It also covers the Reading Roundup consumables. The charts are also offered as Word files on the program's website, so they can be filled in on a computer. It's a companion to the Building on Patterns Pre-K curriculum and isn't a standalone learning product, so it only makes sense if you're already using that program with a young child.
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Barraga Visual Efficiency Program Book Set
$269.00
This set holds two print books from the Barraga Visual Efficiency Program: the Program Book and the Perceptual Skills Evaluation Book. They are replacement pieces for the full Barraga kit, which is used to evaluate and build visual skills in children with low vision. You'd use them with a teacher of students with visual impairments or a similar specialist, not on your own at home. It's a set of books only, so it doesn't replace the complete kit.
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Accessible Multiple Choice Answer Sheets: Pop-A-Dot (4-pack)
$87.22
These answer sheets let a student mark multiple choice answers by pressing down a raised plastic dot, then pop it back up to change an answer without help. The dots are tactile and high contrast, so they work for students who read by touch or by sight. Choices a through e run across each row. The advanced sheets hold questions 1-20 in two columns, and the beginning sheets hold questions 1-10. You can mix the two kinds to fit the number of items on a test. Because the dots are pushed rather than filled in with a pencil, the sheets may also suit students who find writing hard.
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Woodcock-Johnson IV: Large Print Edition
$614.81
This is the large print edition of the Woodcock-Johnson IV, a set of assessments used to identify learning difficulties, built for people who read large print. It's a testing instrument for trained professionals to give and score, not a workbook or a learning aid.
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Tactile Treasures Kit
$506.00
Tactile Treasures is a set of thermoformed pages shaped around real objects that young children explore by touch. The pages help a child build early understanding of basic concepts such as shape, size, amount, and position. A teacher or specialist can use the kit as an informal way to see what a child already understands, and then as teaching material to build on it. It is made for young children who learn through touch rather than sight. The kit is a teaching and observation tool, not a standalone program, so an adult needs to guide how it is used and what the child's responses mean.
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