A fun
way to teach the layout of a standard keyboard
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Management Group for on-screen keyboard and pointing devices, magnigfiers,
and word prediction
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- Great for autistic students and for children
with physical or learning disabilities
- Motivate and reinforce learning
- Large visuals and sound to adapt for poor
vision
- Data collection to measure progress
- Dolch
word lists included
- Grade the task as the child progresses
- Display UPPER or lower case letters
- Enter your own pictures and sounds for letters
or words
- Color the display keys to
match the keyboard
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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