Assistive Technology: What keyboard learning programs are available for students with disability?

Typequick for Students works as an animated movie telling the story of Kewala as he moves around a map of Australia while building touch-typing skills. Users recommend it as an engaging program, able to be customised to accommodate a range of ability levels.

The Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing series have some high action games as rewards that can motivate Autistic children.


Typer shark can be used online or the full version can be purchased and downloaded. Typer shark is a typing game which provides opportunity for practice.


For blind and vision impaired students Talking Typing Teacher for Windows could be considered, this features digitised human speech reading all screens. Every typing lesson or practice session is read aloud with clear, concise pre-recorded dialogue rather than synthetic speech.