For those of you who worked on typing over the summer do you have apps or programs to recommend?
DD writes *all the time* - scripts, stories, songs, even started a book... - but has forsaken voice to text. She spent all last summer typing a script which ended up only about 3 pages long. All. Summer. We consulted with the AT specialist and bought her an iPad figuring it would be easier for her than typing on the desk top computer we bought her a few years ago. I asked (actually had to half plead half order) her to try writing with voice to text. She wrote as much in 20 minutes as it had taken all summer to type and began using it regularly. A couple months later we went away for the weekend and she couldn't get voice to text to work so had to go back to typing. Turns out the AT specialist told us to get the wrong configuration and DD's voice to text, which had worked so well in school and at home, didn't work when she wasn't hooked up to wifi. Now we can't get her to go back to using it. She had a meltdown when I asked her to *please* use voice to text so I can get an idea of how it works for her, what the roadblocks may be, how it compares to her typing output, etc. She is angry that "everyone" tries to make her use voice to text and seems to be implying that she likes the process of typing better than using voice to text - like maybe her ideas come easier. So I told her if she is going to insist on typing we are going to spend the summer getting her up to speed so she can actually rely on it. DD rarely has these meltdowns and I am not happy about it...
So what program or app should I have her use if we are going work on improving her speed over the summer?
(BTW DD has it all - dysgraphia, dyslexia, developmental dyspraxia (aka DCD), dysarthria (speech issues), math disability, etc. My goal for several years has been to get her to encode well enough for word prediction to guess what word she means and decode well enough to pick the right word from the list. She uses CoWriter so she can go back and forth between keyboarding and voice to text if she has difficulty getting it to recognize a word and can use text to voice to read it back to her or help select from a word prediction list.)
