Thank you for choosing SpahnKeyboarding to assist your child’s keyboarding and writing needs! It has been our pleasure to work with you, but after 40 years Greg and I are excited to announce our retirement. We are very pleased to inform you that we have found our ideal successors in sisters, Caroline Wortmann and Erica DiTirro! For the past 5 months, Caroline, Erica and we have been working out a plan to transfer the business in a way that preserves its vision as a passionate, family-owned company that focuses on supporting children. You will be able to access all the same classes and services with the same level of care and compassion you received from SpahnKeyboarding, but now going by the name of True Touch Typing.
To refer students and families for fabulous classes, to find out more about the services of True Touch Typing, and to register for classes, please contact Caroline or Erica via email: info@truetouchtyping.com or call: (720) 815-8428. The website: www.truetouchtyping.com.
Jeanne and Greg Spahn
20+ Years of specialized touch typing instruction, to typically learning children as well as those with fine motor deficits (including dyspraxia & dysgraphia), executive function impairments, ADHD, dyslexia and giftedness. Jeanne and Greg Spahn, also work with children with typical learning profiles who want to really learn this important skill.
Happily our original class model couples with all existing Covid-19 rules:
* 6-7 students per class
* each student has own work station
* masks are used during class
* homework practice is done at home
* workstations are sanitized between classes,
Most schools offer some form of typing instruction, ranging from independent, student-driven informal typing programs to actual classes, usually in large groups. In either case, these kids are watching their hands as they type.
Our proven success with these students, arises from our expertise and development of our five-week program over these past years. It is our experience that for the complex, essential skill of keyboarding, separating the students' eyes from their hands early in the process is essential. In addition, class size and student/teacher ratio matter tremendously.
The benefits of good keyboarding are clear. We find that the process of learning to touch type leads to:
- Greater processing speed abilities
- Greater fluidity of thought
- Improved spelling
- Less aversion to the writing process
- Less time for homework completion
Kids Who Would Benefit
Any child (especially during Covid 19 and online learning) that is interested in learning the life skill of typing is welcome. We also love to create programs for homeschooled kids. And, as occupational and speech therapists, we work especially well with:
*Any child referred by psychological or academic testing for slow or laborious written output, legibility issues
*Kids with minds that move faster than a pencil
*Children with executive function impairments
*Dyslexic and or dysgraphic kids and those who have spatial organization issues
*Kids with processing speed difficulties, as well as coding, symbol search, and digit span weaknesses
*Kids who use a minimalist approach to written projects- these are the kids who know a lot about a particular subject but can only get a small amount out by pencil
We offer a small group environment and also individual classes taught and supervised by Greg Spahn, Pediatric Occupational Therapist, and Jeanne Spahn, Pediatric Speech Therapist, who together have more than 45 years of pediatric experience.
Happily our original class model couples with all existing Covid-19 rules:
* 6-7 students per class
* each student has own work station
* masks are used during class
* homework practice is done at home
* workstations are sanitized between classes,
Most schools offer some form of typing instruction, ranging from independent, student-driven informal typing programs to actual classes, usually in large groups. In either case, these kids are watching their hands as they type.
Our proven success with these students, arises from our expertise and development of our five-week program over these past years. It is our experience that for the complex, essential skill of keyboarding, separating the students' eyes from their hands early in the process is essential. In addition, class size and student/teacher ratio matter tremendously.
The benefits of good keyboarding are clear. We find that the process of learning to touch type leads to:
- Greater processing speed abilities
- Greater fluidity of thought
- Improved spelling
- Less aversion to the writing process
- Less time for homework completion
Kids Who Would Benefit
Any child (especially during Covid 19 and online learning) that is interested in learning the life skill of typing is welcome. We also love to create programs for homeschooled kids. And, as occupational and speech therapists, we work especially well with:
*Any child referred by psychological or academic testing for slow or laborious written output, legibility issues
*Kids with minds that move faster than a pencil
*Children with executive function impairments
*Dyslexic and or dysgraphic kids and those who have spatial organization issues
*Kids with processing speed difficulties, as well as coding, symbol search, and digit span weaknesses
*Kids who use a minimalist approach to written projects- these are the kids who know a lot about a particular subject but can only get a small amount out by pencil
We offer a small group environment and also individual classes taught and supervised by Greg Spahn, Pediatric Occupational Therapist, and Jeanne Spahn, Pediatric Speech Therapist, who together have more than 45 years of pediatric experience.
