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I was reading the information on your website about the Exchange. I would like to introduce you to the 1st Learn-To-Type program designed by educators specifically for the learning disabled student. For the last 11 years, I've been the Director of CyberSlate, an on-line typing, math, and reading program for children with learning disabilities. I had always hoped that there could be a way to develop just the typing portion of the program. Now there is.

I have licensed the program and have launched a new company called Keyboarding4Kids. The typing program is called Keyboard Classroom.

Children with learning disabilities are not incapable of learning. They just learn differently. Children with forms of Attention Deficit Disorder or ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Asperger's Syndrome, and some other forms of Autism, process information in different ways. The simple task of taking notes with a pencil and paper is hard for a learning disabled child because of an inability to concentrate and focus on the task at hand. Learning to type can make a dramatic difference.

While there are hundreds of "Learn to Type" programs on the market today, Keyboard Classroom is designed specifically to meet the challenges faced by children with learning disabilities.

Keyboard Classroom was invented by Dr. Ian Spence, headmaster at the internationally-renowned Ben Bronz Academy in West Hartford, Connecticut. Written for use by learning disabled students ages 8 to 18 who were having trouble performing at grade-level, yearly testing over two decades showed that 99% of all students made significant gains in their first year of using the software.

Parents and teachers across the country are praising Keyboard Classroom. Students newly acquired touch typing skills are producing astounding results in school, with measured improvement in note taking, homework, information retention, and grade performance.

"This keyboard program is the best I've seen in nearly thirty years as a special education teacher. The practice exercises in content and in form, virtually guarantee the student will experience success. Most of my students eagerly work on their "menu" each day." Susan S. - Special Education Teacher

"He can be as good as or better than any other kid. Being able to type, he can show how good he is to everybody else." Jennifer K. – Parent

We have also included our home row Finger Guides to this typing program. The Guides attach to a standard computer keyboard with Velcro pads and guide a child's fingers to the correct keys, allowing them to learn touch-typing without incorrect, error-prone moves.

I would appreciate it if you can include my website, www.keyboardclassroom.com on your Resource page and/or Newsletter.

Carrie Shaw

President, Keyboard Classroom

Don't forget to tell your employees how much you appreciate the work they do and how much you value their service and dedication.

I am writing through tears because I just received news that the infant brother of a past student, and brother of a prospective student, died last night in his crib. Mother found that the baby suffocated on his vomit because he was placed on his back for a nap, as was instructed by the medical community, and early care professionals.

As a director I have to follow the rule of placing a baby on his/her back, something I know from personl experience that can lead to death. On August 11, 2008, (yesterday) I saved a baby's life while he was playing on his back in his crib. His care giver was sitting in a chair close to him feeding another infant, heard him playing, but did not see, or heard when he threw-up, and was about to be suffocated by his vomit. Luckily I walked in just in time to clear his nose and mouth. Yes, he was burped and waited several minutes before he was placed in his crib. Yes, in my 27 years, 7 months and 11 days workng at the center, that was not my first experience.

I know from the saving of my life that placing a baby on his/her back does more harm than good. When I entered my early teens , my mother told me that a dog saved my life. Lying on my back, playing, I began to stifle from my vomit and would have choked to death if it were not for the agitated barking of a pet dog that alerted her that something was wrong. She was just in time to clear my nose and mouth.

We all hear about SIDS. I have no doubt that SIDS is caused by babies spitting up and suffocating on their vomit. Doctor's don't know everthing. How many of them have watched babies sleep for long periods or play with infants in their beds? In the Caribbean we place babies on their tummies and they do not die from SIDS.

I will continue to follow the rules as specified with very strong doubts. I use this medium to share this story because I do not know if others share my views or able to alleviate my doubts. The death of that mother's child has impacted me so much because I had saved another baby from a similar experience during the day.

do not prevent a person who takes initiative. It will kill the I CAN DO SPIRIT.