Comments on: The Qwerty keyboards and the reason for the layout http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/ Learning difficulties including dyslexia. Download testing sheets Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-19 admin Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:31:29 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/18/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/#comment-19 I'd love for my kids to learn to type on an easier keyboard but unfortunetly we live in world that is full of qwertiies and if they learned on a different one they would never get a job because all employers - well nearly all - have qwerties! Studies do seem to show that there is actually very little difference once you've learnt how to use a keyboard. Dawn I’d love for my kids to learn to type on an easier keyboard but unfortunetly we live in world that is full of qwertiies and if they learned on a different one they would never get a job because all employers – well nearly all – have qwerties! Studies do seem to show that there is actually very little difference once you’ve learnt how to use a keyboard.

Dawn

]]> By: Liz Ditz http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Liz Ditz Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:35:21 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/18/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/#comment-13 I just found your site by searching for something else. There are alternative keyboards Jared Diamond has a lovely essay on "The Curse of Qwerty" http://www.geocities.com/malibu_malv/curse_qwerty.html ( don't have as many problems with QWERTY as Diamond mentions, as I am left handed. However, I'm stuck with QWERTY -- I've tried several times to convert to a Dvorak keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard But it seems that 40+ years of typing on a QWERY has worn grooves in my brain. Perhaps your young students can be Dvorak'ers from the outset. I just found your site by searching for something else. There are alternative keyboards

Jared Diamond has a lovely essay on “The Curse of Qwerty”

http://www.geocities.com/malibu_malv/curse_qwerty.html

( don’t have as many problems with QWERTY as Diamond mentions, as I am left handed.

However, I’m stuck with QWERTY — I’ve tried several times to convert to a Dvorak keyboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

But it seems that 40+ years of typing on a QWERY has worn grooves in my brain.

Perhaps your young students can be Dvorak’ers from the outset.

]]> By: rabe http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-4 rabe Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:13:45 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/18/the-qwerty-keyboards-and-the-reason-for-the-layout/#comment-4 Never connected the patterns of text messaging with those of dsylexia script..thanks for the heads up...I will bring this to the attention of my 10 year old daughter who is dyslexic and empower her to to become a text guru!!! thanks again Never connected the patterns of text messaging with those of dsylexia script..thanks for the heads up…I will bring this to the attention of my 10 year old daughter who is dyslexic and empower her to to become a text guru!!! thanks again

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