Keyboarding will not improve reading skills.  It will not remediate writing skills.  It can act as an accommodation with the use of a spell checker, word prediction software, and/or text to speach software to help create, edit and review writing for content and accuracy.
   
  There are several software programs out there that are of good quality.  It is important to teach persons to type correctly from the start.  As with any aquired skill, it is much easier to learn correctly the first time around rather than try to change old habits and relearn a skill.  Persons with LD have enough to remediate without having to add keyboarding to their list.  Ideally, it is preferrable to introduced proper instruction when a person is provided access to a keyboard.  Many of the commercially available typing software programs make learing to type like a game, which makes it fun to learn.

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