Student’s Challenges/Benefits of KAZ :

The disturbances experienced by individuals with one or a combination of the following neurological differences: Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, ASD Tourette's Syndrome amongst others can make writing and producing a piece of work extremely challenging. The level of concentration and effort involved can be laborious, exhausting, frustrating - causing anxiety and low self-esteem and can affect the overall structure and quality of a piece of work, or at its extreme, deter the individual from wanting to write at all.

Efficient typing skills and using a computer can help eliminate many of these challenges and frustrations and early acquisition familiarises users with the keyboard, allowing them to fully appreciate the tools available to them through touch typing and using a computer.

Challenges / Benefits:

Anxiety, poor social interaction, poor verbal and written communication

For many DSA students, touch typing is a life changing tool for learning and communicating and can aid those who experience problems with anxiety, social interaction and verbal/written communication.

Disturbances related to visual stress

For students suffering from disturbances related to visual stress - KAZ’s unique preference screen helps address their disturbances by offering a selection of preferences to choose from – tailor making the course for optimal reading comfort.

Cognitive limitations

For students with cognitive limitations who may have difficulty in one or more areas of education, e.g. (difficulties with attention or trouble in processing visual information), KAZ’s multi-sensory approach allows them to learn using more than one sense (sight, sound and touch). With this method, information is more likely to be remembered and retained.

Poor working memory

The KAZ course is presented in a structured and light hearted manner and has been designed not to overload the working memory. The program is broken down into short modules, allowing the student to work at their own pace in a non-linear fashion, where they can process their thoughts first and structure them later. Additionally, the student is able to return to previous modules at any time should they wish to refresh.

Poor memory

KAZ’s unique and proven teaching method helps individuals with poor memory. Incorporating both 'muscle memory' and 'brain balance', it engages the major senses of sight, sound and touch simultaneously, radically enhancing memory retention and recall - which is why it is so effective. Using specific combinations and progressions of just 11 words in 5 scientifically structured phrases, the method trains the fingers on both hands to work symmetrically and simultaneously – a direct result of both hemispheres of the brain working at the same time –‘brain balance’.

Difficulties with spelling

Reading, spelling and vocabulary are engrained to memory. With KAZ’s unique accelerated learning teaching method using ‘muscle memory’, spellings become a series of finger movements and patterns on a keyboard, dramatically reducing the likelihood of transposing or misspelling words. Additionally, repetition of typing words helps with training students to recognize words by sight, saving the decoding process that causes trouble when reading. Spell checkers also highlight mistakes and offer alternatives.

Poor handwriting skills

The need for neat handwriting is no longer a priority, as touch typing automatizes the translation of thoughts and ideas into written language. It eliminates the need for accurate letter formation, gripping and manipulating a pen/ pencil and spacing words on a page. Using a computer also aids editing voice-to-text compositions.

Weak muscles and cramp in hands, fingers and wrists

Physical pressure and cramp in fingers, hands and wrists is reduced – as pressing keys on a keyboard can be much easier than manipulating a pen/pencil.

Anxiety, embarrassment and low self-esteem due to messy work and erasure marks/crossings out

Errors can be easily edited/corrected without messy crossings out, resulting in neat and presentable work. This automatically boosts confidence - promoting experimentation with vocabulary and spelling and allows concentration to be focused on content.

Slow work rate due to poor penmanship

Quick and accurate typing can reduce the amount of time spent on a piece of work and often increases the amount of work produced. KAZ’s ‘accelerated learning’ teaching method enables students to learn using their most comfortable and preferred style of learning (visual, auditory or kinaesthetic-tactile pathways). If the teaching method closely matches the student’s preferred way of learning – learning becomes more natural, making learning easier and in turn faster – ‘accelerated learning’.

Poor co-ordination and motor skills

With practise and repetition, touch typing can enhance co- ordination and motor skills.

Difficulties with physical dexterity

With practise and repetition, touch typing can enhance physical dexterity, in turn helping handwriting skills.

Anxiety in examinations due to some or all the above challenges

Subject to Access arrangements, touch typing and using a computer is essential for use in exams for many DSA students.

KAZ Typing Tutor equips the user with a skill for life.

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