A few months ago, I set up a computer for Kylee to use. I had a spare desktop type kicking around, and it seemed a shame to waste it. A laptop would have been good but desktop keyboards and mice are more robust.
She had shown interest in what I was doing on mine and was always eager to ‘help’ me fix client computers, so that is why she has full use of her ‘own’ now. The computer is not too bad at all, a 64-bit system running XP for a short while until I installed Windows 7. There is a suite of games called Purble Place, ideal for Kylee to cut her teeth in the use of a keyboard and mouse.
Even using a laptop mouse, Kylee still uses it two handed and it is amazing to watch her complete online jigsaw puzzles, play the Dora games I bought for it, go through the Purble Place games, make up pictures in Microsoft Paint. I can take credit only for introducing her to computers. The rest is all hers. I only have to show her once, and she is good to go from there on.
Kylee can even tell when all is not well with the computer, and will either reboot it or ask me for my opinion. She will be a guiding force for other children when she goes to school and I hope that they have Windows 7 at her first school. Kylee will advise the IT department on where they should be heading re hardware and software.
Oh, and she knows how to print pictures off too. Soon, she will have her own email ID which I will add to my account. Typing out coherent messages are presently beyond her ability, but it will not be too long before she can do it, and the email ID will be ready and waiting.
Some might think that the above is excessive, but I don’t. Nothing is too much for Kylee, space and finances permitting.
