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On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this holds for many students with learning disabilities. Computers
> are their life line.
>
> Wojtek
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> On Nov 26, 2012 1:25 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Fair enough. But would you generalize from your situation to say that
>> learning cursive has no value?
>>
>> Joanna
>>
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>>
>> So I guess before keyboards I would have failed elementary school, and
>> never received even a basic education. . Since I would not have been
>> able to learn most crafts as well, I would have been dismissed as a
>> slow great ox, incapable of learning anything. Or more likely as too
>> lazy to learn. I don't know what my fate would have been, but it
>> would not have a pleasant one. So I don't have much sympathy for
>> those who mourn the prevalence of keyboards and computers. For me, a
>> world without keyboards would be a nightmare. Without computers, well
>> as long as I had a typewriter it would be tolerable, but computers
>> save me a great deal of misery.
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