Typing for work after stroke

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I used to be able to type fast working in a call centre but now I’m finding myself pressing the wrong key.

Anyone experience this and how did you move forward with it?

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Persistence!
Practice, practice, practice, every single day. It’s just one of the reasons I’m on the stroke forum so much :smile: I use it for my mental rehabilitation, for the reading aspect of it, the typing, improving cognition, as well as helping the community. Helping others is helping me :blush:

Did you ever learn to touch type, typing without having to look at the keyboard?

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Hi Gareth, I was an audio typist before my stroke 7 years ago which paralysed my left side, so I now type with one finger which, as you can imagine is very frustrating!!!.

As Emerald Eyes says Practice Practice Practice :smiley:. I’ve definitely got faster as time has gone by.

Keep on keeping on :+1:

Regards Sue

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It really is practice practice practice but what about some software that you can talk to and it types for you. I use Dragon Naturally Speaking.

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I will promote practice as well. I actually relearned to type even faster than ever before just by commenting here.

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@SimonInEdinburgh im not back yet sadly as depression set in and I need that all sorted before I go back sadly

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There is a free website- typingclub.com

It teaches touch typing with lots of repetition and is for all ages. I have been using it as part of my rehab, 30 minutes a day to get my fingers moving.

Best of luck.

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Hi @Recentstroke thanks for this helpful website. I suspect we’re going to be best friends

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Hi @Recentstroke and welcome to the forum, hope you are finding lots of useful advice here to help with your rehab and coping strategies for your stroke. There is a lot of useful help and advice on here that you can find by using the magnifying glass :mag: (top right corner) to run a search for.
Hope your recovery is going well and look forward to seeing you around the forum :smile:

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@Recentstroke just popping by to say hi & welcome to the community. Hope your rehab is coming along well & you are seeing improvements all the time.

Best wishes

Ann

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Thank you for sharing that. While I no longer need that, I can tell you, typing is one of the things that helped me tremendously in getting my hand to stretch further and more easily as well as helping me to think at the same time as doing something. That was almost impossible for me and is still hard, but I can do it while typing.

Hope I will see you here often and perhaps we can be of help to you as well.

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Hi Simon, nice to see you and thanks for the link. I Iook forward to joining some zoom exercise classes!

All the best,

Raul

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Hi Gareth me too, I have found that my stroke left me with dyslexia and spelling so when I type the words are the wrong way round or mixed up. I use spell checker to correct them but I agree time consuming for something I used to do well.
FRom Lynne T

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I’m ok for spelling just hitting the wrong keys and it’s slow as hell

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