Posted in iPad, iPhone, Keyboarding on May 11th, 2012 1 Comment »
Dan Miller, editor at Macworld demonstrates some extremely useful iPad keyboard tricks. He’s also provided a transcript in the post so you can read about them. I knew some of these but not all of them. Best to use them a lot to get them internalized. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Apple, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, Keyboarding, Macintosh, Texting, Tools on Apr 24th, 2012 7 Comments »
Shawn Blanc has done some research on keyboards for the Macintosh and written an exhaustive piece on using them as a professional writer: Clicky Keyboards. It’s not clear from the piece if Shawn is a touch typist but my guess is he is. In 1985 I witnessed my friend Steve Splonskowski (still in college) typing [...]
Posted in Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Tools on Nov 12th, 2004 No Comments »
© Yishay Garbasz pyp96yg@sheffield.ac.uk A few years ago, when I exchanged pen and paper with a monitor and a keyboard I went through a change that was more than the significant but obvious advance in technology. I changed something very basic in my dyslexia, or rather in my dyslexic existence. Of course the first noticeable [...]
Posted in Ideas, Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools on Jul 8th, 2004 No Comments »
© 1996 Richard Wanderman Note: This article was written for the launch of LD Online and first appeared there. I’m a successful adult with a learning disability (dyslexia); part of the reason for my success is that I use computers to organize and express my ideas. In this article I focus on writing because it’s [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Tools on Jul 8th, 2003 No Comments »
© 2003 Richard Wanderman This article first appeared in the Fall, 2003 issue of Perspectives, the newsletter of the International Dyslexia Association. My use of tools, from simple Hi-Liter pens to computers and more has changed my experience of being dyslexic and dysgraphic. Tools allow me to compensate (some might say over-compensate) for my dyslexia-caused [...]
Posted in Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Macintosh, Process, Tools on Nov 29th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1987 Laurie Fais, Ph.D. Author’s Note This article was written in 1987 for the Macintosh Lab Monitor (a newsletter, now defunct) while Laurie Fais and Richard Wanderman were working at The Forman School (a private school in Connecticut serving students with learning disabilities). The research and its results are still useful and relevant today. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Macintosh, Process, Tools on Oct 31st, 1995 No Comments »
© 1982 Richard Wanderman I had a hard time with writing. I didn’t spend a lot of time doing it because it was such an unpleasant activity for me. Of course, it’s no wonder that I had a hard time with it, I didn’t write enough to get comfortable with it. My handwriting is so [...]
Posted in Keyboarding, Learning Disabilities, Macintosh, Tools on Oct 31st, 1995 No Comments »
© 1994-1995 Richard Wanderman Author’s Note These pieces first appeared in the Fall, 1994 and Fall 1995 issues of Perspectives, published by the International Dyslexia Association. Overview I am a successful dyslexic adult and part of the reason for my success is the fact that I use computers and other tools to organize my life [...]
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