Sue Hossack . MOT, OTR/L, ATP

Miss Sue's Keyboard Fun©

This program contains 2 separate parts: Keyboard Fun and Spelling Fun. The first, Keyboard Fun is designed to encourage children to learn the keyboard, by matching keys to pictures, and to be rewarded with sight and sound. Spelling Fun takes this a step further, asking the child to type words with the same sights and sounds being presented for each letter. The list of words can be changed easily, so that the week's word list can be practiced. In this way the child learns where the keys are on the keyboard.

While working as an occupational therapist in the school system, I come across children who experience difficulty with handwriting for various reasons. Sometimes, using a keyboard and computer may be a good approach to provide such students with literacy skills. However, if they are just learning the alphabet, it can be difficult for them to find the letters on the keyboard.

I needed a fun way:

• to teach the layout of a standard keyboard;
• to motivate and reinforce learning;
• with large visuals and sound to adapt for poor vision;
• a way to measure progress;
• a way to grade the task as the child progressed, from finding letters in sequence, to finding them at random, on to spelling;
• and with the ability to move between upper and lower case letters

So, I decided to develop my own program! I call it Miss Sue's Keyboard Fun © , a game my students could play while learning where letters are located on the keyboard.

If you are interested in getting a 30-day trial copy of this program, please send an email with your address to sue@ot-care.com