Dysgraphia and keyboarding

[HollyBearsMom]

Anybody have a recommendation for a good keyboarding program for kids?

My son (8) was recently diagnosed with dysgraphia and next school year will be given an accommodation to use a keyboard at his desk. I would like to teach him basic keyboarding over the summer but want something geared towards kids. Ideally something that is more "fun".

Google brought up pages and pages so I was hoping to narrow my search with some "tried and true" ones.

thanks in advance!

[LynnS6]

My kids have used this one from the BBC and it's pretty good. I believe ds uses it at the keyboarding classes at school too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

[HollyBearsMom]

that looks good! Bookmarked and thank you!

anyone else???

[kalynnsmom]

Subbing. My daughter hasn't been dx with Dysgraphia but the school acknowledges that she does have lots of handwriting issues. She will be using a keyboard in 3rd or 4th grade (she'll be in 2nd grade this coming up year). Also looking for keyboarding programs.

[HollyBearsMom]

I saw our OT yesterday and she had these suggestions....


http://www.nimblefingers.com/

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/...ing_games.html

http://www.gamequarium.com/index.htm

http://www.computerlabkids.com/keyboarding.htm

[LauraLoo]

We've used Read, Write & Type with our ds -- he really likes it. It incorporates games along with learning to type. When we purchased it there was only the CD option offered, but I see that they now have an online version. You can try it out for free to see if you like it:

http://www.talkingfingers.com/