Lyra's Screen Smasher app for iPhone and iPad

this app makes grey circles grow colourfully while playing fun sound effects when you tap the screen. It was built for my daughter, Lyra. Lyra was born with a very rare genetic condition called MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome. This syndrome has a wide spectrum of symptoms and everyone diagnosed with it will exhibit them differently.

Lyra has difficulty with movement and her coordination is poor, but she loves smashing the keys on a mechanical keyboard, so I made her a simple web-app (https://keyboardsmasher.net) so that she could sit on my lap in front of a computer and see colours appear and sounds play when she smashed at the keys.

Over time this has had a positive effect on her motor skills and we now see her pressing keys a lot more gently and purposefully. It has also taught her a bit about cause and effect relationships.

I decided to make this into an app so that we could have a version to take anywhere with us to keep her happy on the go.

I hope that it has some value for other children with MEF2C Haploinsufficiency and other disorders, even if just to make them smile the way Lyra does. I also hope that it might be a little bit of fun for everyone else too.

To find out more about our fundraising efforts to accellerate research into treatments for MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome, visit https://www.mef2cfoundation.com or if you wish to send us a donation of any size go to https://gofund.me/218ead38

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