Thank you to Bonnie Shams, OTR for her comment about Type Fun app, a keyboarding game app for the iPad and iPhone.
Available in a lite and full version (.99) with more words provided in the full version. Practice levels for beginning and practiced typists are options with speed settings and word selections provided in a fun game format!
The app provides scores and has setting options for the user. Here is a video of the app’s typing game :
As always practice on a standard keyboard using touch typing technique is recommended as the standard method of typing instruction. Use of a Bluetooth keyboard (such as Apple Wireless Keyboard or Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad ) or a wired keyboard is possible (see how to connect a standard keyboard to an iPad using the iPad Camera Connection Kit on this previous post : Keyboarding Practice on Your iPad or Android ) with your iPad. Be sure to use good ergonomic positioning when practicing keyboarding!
Thank you again to Bonnie for her recommendation. Another free tool for your iTool Kit!
About Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS
OTR/L with more than 35 years experience in pediatrics, school based therapy and adult rehabilitation. Masters of Science in Adaptive Education/Assistive Technology with 20 years experience in AT in education of elementary, middle school, secondary, post secondary students and work environments for adult clients. A RESNA Assistive Technology Practitioner with ACVREP CATIS credentials, AOTA Specialty Certification in Low Vision, USC Davis Executive Certificate in Home Modifications, servicing adults and students with disabilities in employment, education, and home environments.
A 2020 graduate of the University of Alabama Birmingham Low Vision Certification Program.
Available in a lite and full version (.99) with more words provided in the full version. Practice levels for beginning and practiced typists are options with speed settings and word selections provided in a fun game format!
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