Presents some aspects of training computer skills with children with cerebral palsy and problems that occur in countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet and mixed computer keyboards.

1. Lost in Letters
Temenuzhka Zafirova-Malcheva
[MIE 2013]
September 19-21, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria

2. Communication
Languages + Writing systems

3. 7105
Living Languages

4. Most popular writing
systems
Latin
Кирилица

5. English
Latin alphabet

6. Users with special needs
Children with
Cerebral Palsy (CP)

7. Children CP
&
Cyrillic alphabet
Computers
&
Latin alphabet
+
Mixed keyboard

8. Problems
Mixed keyboard
&
Children with CP
=

9. Children CP
&
Mixed keyboard
Me
&
Chinese keyboard
=
Problems

10. Two different letters
on the same key
Same letters on
different keys
Problems
Mirror images of
letters

11. Alternative keyboards
Latin alphabet 26 letters Alternative keyboard 26 keys
Cyrillic alphabet – 30 letters ? Alternative keyboard 26 keys

12. Solution
Large print colored labels with
Cyrillic letters

13. Method
Keys with same purpose
painted in same color
Learning position of letters
in small groups
Adapted standard keyboard

14. Lost in Letters…
Sofia University “St. Kliment
Ohridski”
Faculty of Mathematics and
Informatics
Temenuzhka Zafirova-Malcheva
tzafirova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
Doctoral conference
in Mathematics, Informatics
and Education
September 19-21, 2013, Sofia,
Bulgaria