KEYBOARD ALPHABET The move from handwriting to keyboarding is not an automatic or easy transition. Keyboarding requires skills including bilateral coordination, visual spatial skills, visual form constancy, visual memory, visual copying skills, finger isolation and dexterity. The aim is to build proficiency so vision of fingers on keys is not needed and there is an automaticity in typing. This takes time and practice. Some children will learn all of this naturally with a good typing program. Th