There are many different ways to adapt a computer so every child can use one in school. One alteration can be the keyboard. Below is a list of the different types that are available.
- Large key/print keyboards- students that have sight difficulties
- Braile keyboards- little pins on each key- students with little to no vision
- Mini keyboard (requires no strength)- Students with little to no hand movement
- Expanded keyboards- students with sight difficulties
- One-handed keyboard- students with only the use of one hand
- Key guards- students with limited fine motor skills
- On screen virtual keyboard- for students that can only control a mouse or a scanning switch
- Intellikeys adaptive keyboard- uses standard overlays: alphabet, basic writing, QWERTY, web, math access, and mouse access- for students with visual, physical, or cognitive disabilities
- Tutorial: Intellikeys ( http://www.intellitools.com/intellikeys.html )
- This unit comes with a board powered by USB. It has several overlays that have various keyboard layouts (QWERTY, alphabetical, basic writing- a qwerty but less keys, math overlay, mouse keys and a settings/set up overlay)
- You can customize overlays on the website
- Slide in the overlay and wait for the beep
- Start typing
- It's that easy!
- You can turn down the response rate to make it not type until you hold your finger down on a key.
- You can use key guards on top.
(YouTube, 2013)
(Intellitools.com, 2013)
References
CSU Ohio (2013). ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.csuohio.edu/offices/disability/at/equipment/ATL_Equipment_List.pdf [Accessed: 22 Oct 2013].
Intellitools.com (2013). Computer Accessibility through Programmable Keyboards | IntelliKeys. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.intellitools.com/intellikeys.html [Accessed: 22 Oct 2013].
YouTube (2013). Young student using IntelliKeys USB. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hdMJmAZ5Q [Accessed: 22 Oct 2013].
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