Dyslexia Keyboard Trick for Letter Recognition
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For students with Dyslexia, many struggle with letter recognition. (For anyone wanting more in depth info about Dyslexia, check out understood.org, understood. org has great resources for Dyslexia and learning disabilities in general. One accommodation or as I like to call it, a tool for success can be technology. Technology can be a huge and helpful tool for students with Dyslexia.
Keyboarding skills for any student can be helpful and essential for 21st-century skills. 21st century skills are skills that are going to be used in the workforce/everyday life and are becoming a huge trend in education.
Sarah Fischer, a consultant with LEARNstyle showed me this great method to support letter recognition for those students. To help identify and assist with recognizing letters that they may confuse (example: “d” and “b” or “m” and “w”), you could put related animals stickers so that they make the connection between the two different letters. For example in the picture below, she put a d for a dinosaur and a b for a bumblebee. This is also great for young students, a majority of students love decorating and adding colorful things to their computer to customize it and make it unique.
There are special keyboard stickers that you can buy but if you want to go the extremely affordable rate, I just headed to the Dollar Store and bought a pack for a dollar (plus they're a little bit more fun and pretty than the traditional keyboard stickers :) ).
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