About Our Program
We specialize in teaching keyboarding, also known as touch typing, to children with fine motor deficits (including dyspraxia & dysgraphia), executive function impairments, ADHD, dyslexia and giftedness. We also work with children with typical learning profiles who want to learn this important skill.
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.
We have developed our five-week program over the past 15 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 who is interested in learning to keyboard 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.
Greg Spahn, OTR 303 692-8464 Jeanne Spahn, MA CCC 303 765-4395
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.
We have developed our five-week program over the past 15 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 who is interested in learning to keyboard 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.
Greg Spahn, OTR 303 692-8464 Jeanne Spahn, MA CCC 303 765-4395
