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Building Your Independent Living Toolkit

A young woman in a kitchen setting cooking in a sauce pan and a wooden spatula.

From hobbies to life on the go, we have a wide variety of products for day-to-day life to support adults who are blind or low vision. Check out this list of tools to support your independent lifestyle!

 

Inside the Home

  • Mantis Q40: Keep braille at your fingertips anytime, anywhere, with the Mantis Q40: a Bluetooth keyboard and 40-cell refreshable braille display.

A person's hand reading the 40 cell braille display on the Mantis Q40. A folded up white cane sits on the table.

  • Chameleon 20: Featuring Text-to-Speech, the Chameleon 20 is the perfect device for learning and reinforcing braille literacy skills. This portable braille display with local apps, like an editor and library, is perfect for improving productivity in the classroom and the workplace.
  • Functional Skills Assessment (FSA): The FSA is a tool for evaluating daily living skills for students in primary grades up to post-secondary transition programs.
  • Talking Cooking Thermometer: Use this large-display talking thermometer for cooking, hobbies, gardening, and much more! Use the built-in eyelet at the top to hang the thermometer within easy reach.
  • Push Button Padlock: This accessible push-button padlock makes entering combinations a breeze! Just push five buttons and presto, you’re in!
  • Color Star: Detect and analyze the colors and lighting of your surroundings with this lightweight device.

Front view of Color Star showing three buttons

  • Tactile Clothing Tape: Allows braille readers to keep colors and other information about their clothing and linens exactly where they need it: attached to the item and ready to be read. The brailled information remains clean and readable after going through automatic washers and dryers, and even holds up under an iron if a layer of fabric is kept between the iron and the label!
  • Labeling, Marking, and Organization: A Self-Help Guide for Persons After Vision Loss: This book with accompanying recordings of the text on CDs teaches you to organize with and without labeling and to create customized marking systems.
  • EZ Track Address Book: Get organized with this large print address book which includes a plastic template for easy entry.
  • Feel ‘n Peel Stickers: These tactile/visual stickers have a variety of uses! Feel ‘n Peel Stickers are printed and/or embossed on durable plastic with bright, translucent colors.
  • Select Switch: This battery-powered switch with function control features helps disabled individuals communicate and control battery-operated appliances, toys, and device
  • Talking GlowDice: Simply push the Roll button and a randomly generated number between one and six is announced in digital speech, and the corresponding number is displayed in bright blue LEDs.

Talking Glow Dice displaying three lit dots. The device is black with a square red button at the top and a rectangular yellow button at the bottom.

Outside the Home

30-Love Tennis Kit

 

APH Press Books

 

For more information on living with vision loss, visit visionaware.org and for related products, visit aph.org/shop.

 

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