On 10/21/07, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob La Quey) writes: > > > > The reason for this is a combination of dyslexia and poor > > hand-eye coordination. No amount of training will fix these > > underlying facts. > > > > <snip> > > > > I have found that watching me type is disturbing to good > > typists. It is rather like watching a person with severe > > cerebral palsy walk across a street. It does not bother me > > much. I have always dealt with the problem. But it bothers > > the watcher. They often want to fix me. Sigh. They have a > > hard time understanding that "meatball does not work that way." > > > > Hi Bob, > > Don't rule out practice just yet. Dyslexia and pour hand eye coordination > will make it harder yes, but in the end they will have little effect when > learning touch typing since you mustn't look at the keys or your hands > anyways. I have M.S. so my hands and arms shake quite a bit some times or > my right eye starts screwing with my depth perception and to make maters > worse I have *fat* fingers. > > What really helped me out was the use of a large keyboard, with heavy > separated keys like in the days of old; sadly my work calls for use a my > laptop most of the time and the keys are quite small and stuck together. > > -- > Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas (gamaral)
Hi Gamaral, I don't have much motivation to practice. I am 66 years old with more than enough to do. I am also skeptical of the value. As it is I just ignore it sicne I have been adapted to the problem for almost 50 years now :) I suspect that if I wanted to focus on the issue that I would be better off writing the program that I described. It would also help more than just me so the use of my time would be leveraged. I suppose a starting point would be Aspell http://freshmeat.net/projects/aspell/ One would then add user based training so that Aspell got better at guessing. It should also be possible to add a "fat fingers" hueristic as well based on the layout of the keyboard, i.e. "y"->"yu" | "uy" is more likely than "y"->"yi" etc. I have no idea how far this could be carried or how well it would work. I am not sure that dsylexia is the correct term for my problem. I can see letters in the correct order, but they come out my fingers pretty badly scrambled. I have no problem reading, just writing. My hand writing is atrocious, my printing not too bad. So it goes, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
