The Talking Typing Teacher is an interactive program for Windows that teaches keyboarding skills. The program was designed with blind and visually impaired students in mind. It also gives you the ability to adjust font, text size, contrast, background color, and many other features to work well for you.
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Talking Typing Teacher easily accommodates the specific needs of all visually impaired typists. All directions, posture tips, drills and games are narrated entirely with pre-recorded human dialog, as well as shown on-screen. It is fun and easy to use for both novice and advanced users. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can choose from dozens of fonts, change the size of text, and decide how heavy the print should be, along with achieving the ideal color contrast by selecting from thirty different background and text colors.
Features:
Built-in human speech that narrates the entire program
Complete interaction with both sound and full-color animations
Detailed lesson curriculum designed with three levels of instruction that teach and reinforce typing, with careful emphasis on posture and correct typing habits
Lessons consist of spoken and displayed instructions, practice drills, and final reminders
Three levels of instruction that not only change the number of keys that are taught, but also how the instructions are worded and presented
Constant positive and encouraging reinforcers throughout the entire curriculum
The ability to create an unlimited number of customized lessons to further enhance your typing curriculum
A countless number of optional tunes and sound effects to enhance student performance and make the entire curriculum exciting and fun
Seven separate functions to test and enhance typing skills between each lesson
Menu Outline
File Cabinet is a powerful tool for teachers that makes it possible to swiftly manage entire groups, keep track of individual students' progress, and create customized typing lessons.
Explore the Keyboard allows students to press any key or key combination on the keyboard, and hear it spoken aloud. If you want the keys they type in other programs announced as well, just hold down a shift key when you push this button.
Typing Lessons is where you or your students will spend many happy hours following a detailed, fun, and interactive typing curriculum.
Key Practice is a great way to ensure that students are able to quickly locate each and every key on the keyboard.
Word Practice presents students with randomly selected words to be typed, to help reinforce newly-acquired typing skills.
Sentence Practice has been designed to help students practice typing three different levels of full-length, interesting sentences.
Typing Games is a set of six games designed to help students enjoy their newly acquired skills, creating the perfect learning environment for everyone!
Talking Workbook is a fully functional word processor, which can be used to test your new typing skills on a practical application. Such advanced features as "Find", "Search and Replace", "Word Count", and "Check Spelling" are included in this fantastic editor.
Talking Typing Teacher Pro
Fully network-compatible
Licensed for use on up to thirty-five computers meaning you can install the program on one computer (the server), and use it on up to thirty-five remote computers (the clients)
Full support for multiple student use - tracks each student's progress individually
Comprehensive teacher's instruction kit, containing a text copy of all three levels of instruction