Keyboard+Technologies

[|Clevy keyboards]are keyboards specially designed for people with low vision or special needs. There are several versions out that aim to help vision impaired students with their technology needs. They come in high contrast black and white, which is preferred by some users while others come in colours that help students identify different areas on the keyboard, blue for the letters, red for numbers, orange for punctuations and green for operational buttons. These great alternative keyboards provide visual cues for the user to support successful keyboarding.
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The Clevy Keyboard costs around $120 per keyboard, so of course, there are costs involved that may or may not affect the inclusion of such a technology but overall for students with vision impairments, this would be the technology to use.

[|Keyboard Classroom]is a program that helps students with special needs how to use the valued tool of typing. On the website the founder of Ben Bronz Academy defines how typing skills are important in today’s society and how this program helps students with their typing abilities. In 1988, Raymond et al made suggestions that are still present in today’s society, that ‘interaction with the increasingly omnipresent computer will require operation of a keyboard. Typing is going to be one of the most important cognitive tools for the next few decades’ [|(Raymond et al, p16, 1988).]This is still true for today and therefore by using a program such as the Keyboard Classroom or Clevy Keyboards, students can get the best opportunities to learn in a supportive environment.

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