This study investigated the effects of teaching typing to educable mentally handicapped pupils. It was hypothesized that acquisition of typing skills would result in significant gains in the academic and personality areas. Fourteen pairs of subjects were matched on appropriate variables. The experimental subjects received typing instruction for two or three years utilizing The Keyboard Town Story curriculum. Only partial support for the hypothesis was obtained. Typing did seem to benefit approximately 25 percent of the group.
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