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Is touch typing an essential skill for children or is it just a “nice to have”?
Learning to touch type has some great benefits. While you might have a mental image of rows of young ladies sitting behind their manual typewriters, touch-typing is not an outdated practice and is becoming more and more relevant. Learning to touch type is actually a...
Typing and technology through the ages!
Typing and technology through the ages by a 47 year old. What has your experience been with typing and technology through the years? I remember my son asking me if cars were "a thing" when I was young! At age 47, it is funny to think that when I was a child, all...
Type in comfort – Here are our Type IT! Hayfever tips
Type in comfort - Here are our Type IT! Hay fever tips We always like our students to type in comfort. Hay fever is something which affects a lot of us and there is nothing worse than sitting in a classroom or in front of a computer at work, with itchy eyes, a tickly...
How do you create a good work/life balance?
How do you create a good work/life balance? I thought about this subject this week, as, no matter how hard I try, I am really struggling to fit in my exercise and my "Get fit with Rick" videos without a child using the front room where I exercise or my husband coming...
Touch Typing For Dyslexia
I recently wrote an article about touch typing for Dr Susannah Pinkus who is an Education Expert specialising in Thinking & Learning Differences. Has your child recently been granted 'word-processing' as a reasonable adjustment at school and in examinations?...
Top 10 typing tips – how to type in comfort
Top 10 typing tips These tips seem particularly important to me at the moment. During lockdown I have been working at the kitchen table which is the wrong height but luckily, I have a monitor stand, a decent chair and as a touch typist I have managed to save my neck...
Can playing the piano help you to be a better touch typist?
In previous articles we have looked at how learning to touch-type can be beneficial to children and adults with dyslexia and dyspraxia as touch typing involves a different way of learning - a "muscle memory". Muscle memory is also used when learning the piano and the...
How can I help my child’s mental health? Here are a few suggestions from the Type IT! team.
So how can I help my child's mental health? After such a hard time for us all during lockdown, how can we help our children in this time of adjustment? Firstly, make sure you take care of yourself. We have all been through the same ordeal, so make sure that you have...
What are the benefits of learning to touch type?
Have you ever tried typing with two fingers? I just had a go and it's quite a slow and tiring process. Now try typing with more fingers. That's a bit faster. Now imagine learning to type with all your fingers, starting from a central position and also,...
Ebooks versus paper books, which are better? Here are our top 10 pros and cons.
Which do you prefer to read? From a personal perspective I do like to sit down in the evening with a good paper book. Reading on a screen just isn't the same as turning that page and finding out what happens. But this might not be the same for everyone. So what...