Learning the use of the keyboard for children with visual disabilities

Abstract

At present, the inclusion of children with disabilities in regular education is very important, since it allows them to develop their affectivity, because when feeling a member of a community increases their self-esteem and improve their academic performance due to the motivation to feel accepted. Children with visual disability, either with low vision or blindness, are the most integrated into the regular schools, and being their sensory disabilities, they have no intellectual impediment to follow the school curriculum at the same rhythm as their sighted peers. In order for students with visual disabilities to follow the official school curriculum, as their sighted peers, it is imperative to introduce the correct management of the computer keyboard from an early age, a prerequisite for the use of any computer application that will help them at their best use and even to take notes. Therefore, the fast learning in the use of the keyboard by children with visual disabilities would be very helpful, even in children between the ages of 6 and 8 years would be a great support in literacy, which would benefit not only the children themselves also to their teachers since these could advance at a more constant pace.