[Trainer-Talk] teaching keyboarding and layout

[Marianne Denning]

Typability is a great program that has been designed for people who will be
using JAWS and is excellent. Talking Typing Teacher is another great
program but both are over $100.00. I haven't found any others that I like.
You can go on the Hadley website and look at the different lessons related
to typing. I would always begin any typing training using the home row and
moving fingers correctly from home row. That will be how she can orient to
the key board.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Ashley Bramlett via Trainer-Talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m trying to assist a patron at the library with computer skills. With
> limited knowledge and use of the computer, she needs practice typing. I may
> not be able to assist with that part as we do not have programs. However, I
> do at least want to teach Jaws a little bit such as opening files and
> reading them. I want to teach the reading commands at least so she can do
> something.
>
> She is not familiar with the location of the peripheral keys such as the
> tab key, control, alt, windows key and function keys.
> Toward that end, I want to know how to help someone in this situation. My
> questions are these.
>
> 1. Are there any free or inexpensive software to help with this? Perhaps
> something under $100.
> 2. Does the hadley keyboarding course help with only the letters and touch
> typing the basics, or does it include instruction on other keys?
> 3. Do you show them the keys hand over hand or hand under hand?
> 4. So far I’ve just named the keys such as saying something like “on the
> bottom left is control, next to it is windows key, alt, and space bar.”
> Then I show her by taking her hand and putting her hands on the keys. Is
> this a good way? How do you help students remember the layout? I thought
> having them repeat back to me the order of keys and perhaps touching them
> as they state the key names would work. I know that is how I learned
> braille note keys. I had someone tell me what the keys were from left to
> right and then I repeated what they said and examined the keyboard and
> layout of controls while talking.
>
> 5. Are there any premade tactile diagrams using raised letters out there
> you can buy? That or a braille layout? Has anyone found letter stickers
> that are raised enough to feel and use that to show the layout? Not
> everyone knows braille, so that is why I was thinking of raised print
> letters.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ashley
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
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