In our Keyboarding course, clients use a program called Typability, in conjunction with JAWS software, to learn the layout and proper technique for typing.

Typability uses a non-typist approach for teaching typing, and clients learn where to position their hands, which fingers to use for certain keys, and how to make proper key strokes. For our clients with minimal sensitivity in their fingertips, we place tactile stickers on the keys as landmarks. For clients with low vision, we use high-contrast, large-print keyboards. The lessons begin with basic letters and progresses to making words and sentences, using function keys, and incorporating numbers and symbols. The goal of keyboarding is for clients to attain the desired speed and accuracy they need to enter into the career training program of their choice, all of which have different standards for typing speed and accuracy.