When my daughter was in primary school the Senco suggested it might help if she learnt to touch type. So began our relationship with the ‘very delightful’ Mavis Beacon programme. My daughter did learn to touch type using recordings of Ms Beacon’s voice with those delightful sporadic words of encouragement echoing in all of our ears.
She still touch types today and what a life skill it has proven to be. It was invaluable throughout secondary school and university and remains so now that she is working, though it doesn’t necessarily help her actually respond to those 200 emails sitting in her inbox!
The RNIB still recommends today that children with visual impairment, however slight or severe, learn to touch type. Mavis Beacon may have neen superceded by more up to date online courses and programmes, but whichever one your child follows I can guarantee that they, too, will be “very delighted” that they did.
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