Fact · Typing and writing speed
At the three-month follow-up, both the students with learning disabilities and the students without them were significantly faster than before the program.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“In the long-term evaluation, both groups significantly improved their speed compared to pre-test.”
The effect of a touch-typing program on keyboarding skills of higher education students with and without learning disabilities, Hayley Weigelt Marom and Naomi Weintraub, Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 47, pp. 208-217, 2015, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.09.014)- What it measures
- The three-month follow-up tested whether speed gains lasted after the lessons ended.
- What it does not show
- The abstract reports the result without effect sizes, which we could not check in the full text.