Plus, they often have the desire to learn. With encouragement from you and some self-motivation from your child, this may be enough to get started. Some schools include keyboarding in their computer curriculum. If this occurs, your child may be regularly practicing keyboarding drills. Be sure and ask what software is used and how the drills are made to be fun.
Many children learn at after school enrichment classes.
Look for an enrichment class that uses a variety of software programs, alternates accuracy drills with speed drills and gives students frequent encouragement to improve their skills. But maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. IBM recently began selling voice-recognition software called ViaVoice . This software would let people talk to their computers and their words would be converted into text in a word processing program. In fact, ViaVoice interfaces nicely with Microsoft Word.