[BlindTlk] Type

[Pamela Dominguez]

My mother decided that I should learn to type in the first grade when I was 
learning to read and write braille.  She had gotten my brother a typewriter 
that year, when he was starting seventh grade.  I was playing with it, and 
she decided if I wanted to play with it, I had to learn to type on it.  I 
typed for a while, and then it went by the wayside.  When I was ten, and 
home sick, I started playing with it again.  So, she taught me again.  My 
next use of a typewriter was in the Institute, when they gave us typing in 
Junior highschool.  So, I guess you could say I had a head start.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: sheila leigland via BlindTlk
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2020 6:45 PM
To: Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk
Cc: sheila leigland
Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Type

in the early sixties they started teaching us to type as early as the
third grade.

On 1/6/2020 12:54 AM, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk wrote:
> Overbrook School For the Blind had a graduation prerequisite of being
> able to type.
> Since I had bedwetting problems the school wanted to put me in knitting
> class rather than typing.
> When my Mother found out she came down on the School like a ton of
> bricks in a very
> bad place and I got typing.
> That among other reasons was why I got mainstreamed out of Overbrook
> and that was before much of the disabilities legislation had been passed
> to
> support mainstreaming.
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, PRAMIT BHARGAVA via BlindTlk wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 02:41:34
>> From: PRAMIT BHARGAVA via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: PRAMIT BHARGAVA <pramit.vision at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Type
>>
>> I started at the age of 20. Mine is 25 WPM.
>>
>> Pramit
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:54 AM Chikodinaka mr. Oguledo via BlindTlk <
>> blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I am blind. sence birth. at 16sweet16. yearsold I type slow as I got
>>> older. I progress too faster and faster too 3words per mentit 3words
>>> per sekint
>>>
>>> On 1/5/20, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> I think I was 14 when I started to learn to type and last time I was
>>>> measured I was at 45wpm without mistakes and could go to 60wpm with
>>>> mistakes on manual typewriters.  I tried electric typewriters and gave
>>>> up on them since they started going really fast and getting ahead of my
>>>> thought process and out of control when I typed with them.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Jamelle via BlindTlk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 22:44:26
>>>>> From: Jamelle via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> To: BlindTlk at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Cc: jmail201586 at yahoo.com
>>>>> Subject: [BlindTlk] Type
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> At what age did you learn to type?
>>>>>
>>>>> How many wpm can you type now?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm asking this question because I think that blind and visually
>>> impaired
>>>>> individuals are learning skills at earlier ages then some who are the
>>>>> same
>>>>> ages. I was 11-12 when I'd began typing.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to the hr center I'd went to a few years ago, I'm able to 
>>>>> type
>>>>> 46-53 wpm.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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