This contraption yells commands at you, and you respond by either pulling, twisting, or bopping. Bopit is multi-colored, but it doesn't have high color contrast. It contains absolutely no visual interface, so a blind child has no disadvantage at all in playing the game. Bopit is available at nearly any store that carries toys. The Assistive Device Center housed at the Iowa Braille School is a repository of technology equipment for use by students who are visually impaired, blind, or deaf-blind.
Equipment ranges from switches and adaptive toys to complete computer systems.
The purpose of the Assistive Device Center is to allow students who are visually impaired to have a trial use of the equipment, while allowing educational teams the opportunity to evaluate its appropriateness. The Assistive Device Center continually upgrades the equipment so the newest versions are available to students and educators across the state. To borrow items from the Assistive Device Center, contact your teacher of the visually impaired. Braille literacy continues to be an issue of much concern among educators, as well as parents, consumers, and producers of braille materials. A study is presently being conducted by Dr. Stuart Wittenstein, Superintendent of the California School for the Blind, and Sheila Amato, a teacher of students with sensory impairments.