Kudos to Keyboard Town PALS
A letter from a family
Hello Donna and the KBTP family,
What a wonderful little piece of software! My Down Syndrome son who is 12 immediately was taken by the warm and charming characters and wanted to sit down and watch the whole thing through right off the bat!
Once that was done he had no problem following directions (with me by his side as a prompter) and was able to finish one hand (left) in an hour long session.
I will say that for a Down Syndrome individual or an individual with impaired cognitive and motor ability, it might be a little too fast...I remedied this by pressing the pause button until he was ready for the next piece of info. Not really a problem but something to consider if there is a re-issue for a special needs version.
Also we took an hour on just one hand...which we actually had to break into two sessions because of attention and fatigue issues.
We practiced one hand, watching the sessions over until I felt comfortable with his grasp of it and then went to the other hand, following the same daily pattern.
Result: IN LESS THAN A WEEK, MY DOWN SYNDROME SON HAS LEARNED ALL HIS FINGER POSITIONS WITH 98% ACCURACY. HE CAN NOW TYPE AT 5WPM.
This does not mean that he has the speed but the basic "how to" is there...and I credit KBTP for this.
We have now progressed to a regular kid's typing program, for the practice, speed and the games.
The interesting thing is that he asks for KBTP almost daily and goes through it at a much faster speed than at the beginning. So we are using it as review and brush-up on a regular basis.
Also, when he is on the other typing program and just doing his lessons, he tells himself where to put his fingers for each key USING KBTP CHARACTERS...isn't that funny...!
He is writing 10 - 12 sentence paragraphs on subjects that interest him. Writing will probably never be his forte so typing is a wonderful option for him. Once he writes his creative writing exercise he proceeds to type it!
I would like to add that my PC operating system was not being very cooperative with the KBTP CD version and two wonderful people stayed with me and my trials until we made it work. Thank you Donna and Dan (from the technicl support) for your patience! KUDDOS FOR EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Now I am waiting for a Mac version of the CD so that my son Robin can keep on using it on his MacBook at school.
Thank you again for a wonderful program!
Keep up the awesome work!
Gri and Robin Buongiorne
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