GAMES for Mouse Training

Children's games:

Kid themes and fun with some academic or learning content in some games.

Teen - Easy and Fun games:

Appropriate content games with graphics and themes intended for older students, but with basic / easy access training

Teen or Adult - More challenging:

Themes for older students and adults with more difficult concepts and more challenging access training

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/wordplay2.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html

Simple clicking, not much movement.  Requires concentration - timed component, but slow enough for most students.

basic reading skills needed.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/lookout.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/gawain.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html

Words are in a straight line - great for students using single direction mouse movements with switches.

Very simple, basic early word and phonics skills.

Young kids - keyboard input

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/abcow.html

Type individual letters - good speech output.

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Absolutely the BEST puzzle program for mouse control training. Many different options for numbers of pieces, click-lock for dragging, rotation, sizes of pieces, and more.   Works with point-and-click AND mouse drag.  Hundreds of photos, and use your own.

Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
www.popcapgames.com

** play online **

Very large buttons, small mouse movements, wonderful graphics (high resolution mode), change volume from within program, excellent sounds and visual / sound effects.

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Click on letters to spell words and reveal fun photos. 
Benefits for access training:    Large letters, small area for mouse movement, with assistance, user can concentrate on practicing left to right mouse movement only since letter tiles are all in a row.

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This game features a 'drag' lock mouse control which is useful for users who have difficulty with dragging or who have not learned to 'drag' yet.  Puzzle pieces have to be moved and packed onto barges.  This involves visual perceptual planning.  Spacebar to rotate pieces (can be achieved by using the spacebar or a switch attached to a switch adapter box)

Click to rotate vines to form 3 in a row.  The value of this point and click game is that all clicking for each play is done in a small area.  No reading involved.  Some visual perceptual skill required for spatial orientation and visual figure ground with a busy screen.

Excellent game with lots of sounds and movement on the screen.  Very big buttons, very clear and easy to read.  Great for training early mouse control.  Can be adjusted from 3 letter word difficulty up to 7 words.  Letters all in one line, so is helpful for those learning one direction mouse control.

Slide the game pieces vertically or horizontally to make matches.  Click and HOLD - good for training sustained mouse button hold.

Crazy Golf
www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

Move the mouse to various points on the mini golf course.  The distance and angle of the mouse cursor determine force and angle of the ball...  a great game for estimating movement and angles.

Marble Solitaire

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

A game of hardwood solitaire. A real brain teaser where you have to move strategically to leave only one marble.  Simple point and click with strategy and thinking involved.

Squares

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

Classic simple game where you join the dots to make more squares or boxes than your opponent. 1 player against the computer or 2 player mode.

Hangman
www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html
An old and simple word game where you can choose from the word lists provided or make your own. The idea of the game is to guess the word or phrase picked at random from a list before the hangman scaffold is fully built.
 

Disco MP3 & CD Player
www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html
Play CD's or MP3 files.  Flashing lights (precaution for people with seizures).

TIC TAC TOE

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

Simple game of TIC TAC TOE with point and click only.

Bowling

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

Ten Pin bowling game for 1 player against the computer or 2 human players.

Classic game, you can play against an opponent or the computer.

Simon

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

A very simple memory game where colored lights and sounds are played in a sequence. The player then has to recreate that sequence.

Letter tiles in 1 row - helps with training single direction mouse movements.  Trains mouse click, double click and drag.  Must be able to double click or drag for this game.

Set options to suit individual skill level, create profiles for individuals. 

Jigsaw Maker  
www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

Make your own jigsaw puzzles from your photos.  15 or 24 pieces.  Drag pieces which 'lock' into the correct position.

Simon

www.greyolltwit.com/indexedu.html

A very simple memory game where colored lights and sounds are played in a sequence. The player then has to recreate that sequence.

Click to rotate vines to form 3 in a row.  The value of this point and click game is that all clicking for each play is done in a small area.  No reading involved.  Some visual perceptual skill required for spatial orientation and visual figure ground with a busy screen.

Excellent game with lots of sounds and movement on the screen.  Very big buttons, very clear and easy to read.  Great for training early mouse control.  Can be adjusted from 3 letter word difficulty up to 7 words.  Letters all in one line, so is helpful for those learning one direction mouse control.