Intellikeys for the Beginner

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Intellikeys for the Beginner
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Colorado Department of Education
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The Intellikeys Keyboard
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Intellikeys for the Beginner

• Goals of this training
• Overview of Intellikeys/Equipment
• Classic and USB versions
• Basic Operation/Applications
• Ideas for you/Strategies
• Who you are and what you want

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Intellikeys Getting Started

• What is this thing?
• Alternate keyboard
• Seven standard overlays
• Macintosh, Apple, and PC compatible
• Customizable with Overlay Maker and Suite

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Differences at a Glance

• Classic
• 6 overlays
• Need Mac or PC cable to switch
• Not hot-swappable
• Plugs into keyboard port
• Control panel harder
• Toggles between mouse and keyboard

• USB
• 7 overlays (web new)
• Works with MAC/PC
• Turns on/off hot swappable
• Plugs into USB
• Onscreen control panel easier to adjust
• Mouse and keyboard both available always
• More intuitive/easier

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Intellikeys What it can do

• Provides physical, visual and cognitive access to
  the computer
• Built-in features
• Switch jacks
• Ability to set-up
• features
• Key guards available

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Explore the Overlays

• Arrows Overlay
• Numbers Overlay
• Basic Writing Overlay
• QWERTY Overlay IBM version
• QWERTY Overlay MAC version
• Setup Overlay

• Alphabet Overlay
• Math Access Overlay
• Mouse Access Overlay
• Basic Writing Overlay
• Qwerty Overlay
• Web Access Overlay
• Setup Overlay

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Getting Started Classic board

• Out of the box
• Plug it in
• IBM PS2 cable verses AT Cable
• Mac ADB
• Daisy Chain with a mouse or keyboard port
• Lights and sounds

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Getting Started blue board
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The Set-up Overlay

• Allows you to customize for different users
• Keyboard reset default settings
• Slide the Setup Overlay onto Intellikeys
• Listen for the beep
• Press keyboard reset twice
• Watch for indicator lights to flash
• Press display features twice (on USB)
• Remove the Setup Overlay

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Use Intellikeys with any Software

• Standard word processor
• Talking Word Processor
• Keep in mind this is separate software, adds the
  speech feature.
• Note pad or Simple Text
• Favorite software
• think of it as your keyboard, it is just an
  alternate keyboard

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QWERTY Overlay

• Standard Keyboard Layout
• Contains all the keys you would find on a
  standard 101-key keyboard
• Designed for comprehensive adult programs
• Contains Features
• Num Pad
• Access Mouse/Keyboard
• Caps Lock/Num Lock Lights

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Set-up Overlay and Smart Typing

• Helpful for slow typists
• Automatically types certain characters to speed
  you up
• To turn it on
• Put set-up overlay in and turn smart typing on
• Replace set-up overlay with Basic Writing Overlay
• Try it out! Type a sentence with the word queen
  in it.

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Keyboard Repeat Feature

• If you hold your finger on a key the keyboard
  repeat feature causes the key to be repeated.
• To shut this feature off
• Slide Setup Overlay in place
• Press Repeat Off (for PC only)
• On Macintosh use the control panel, keyboard,
  repeat off

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Alphabet Overlay

• Arranged in alphabetical order
• Easy to read keys/use of color
• Use it with any word processing program
• Steps to use
• Open word processing program
• Slide alphabetical overlay in
• Listen for beep
• Begin typing

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Numbers Overlay

• Insert Numbers Overlay
• Listen for the Beep
• Type some numbers
• Applications

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Basic Writing Overlay

• Very similar to Alphabet Overlay
• Contains may common computer keys
• Designed to facilitate word processing
• Alt/Command key for Mac and PC
• Mac/Apple Command or open apple
• PC alt key
• M and K
• Switches between mouse and keyboard
• ( above arrows)

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Response Rate

• Adjusts the time required to activate a key
• Useful if a person tends to press unwanted keys
  or drags their arm across the keyboard
• Change the Response Rate
• Put set-up overlay in
• Press response rate number 10 (15 is default)
• Put Basic Writing Overlay back in and try it
• Replace set-up overlay and return to 15
• 1 slow response rate, 15 rapid response rate

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Arrows Overlay

• Useful for software programs that require use of
  the arrows, spacebar, and return, etc
• Useful for busy hands

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Mouse Arrows

• Allows the combination of the keyboard and the
  mouse with the touch of a finger
• Activated on four Overlays but try with Arrows
• To turn it on
• Put set-up overlay in place
• Turn mouse arrows on
• Put arrows overlay in
• Note small icons on Y and N (drag and click)

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Mouse Pad

• Built in on the Apple QWERTY
• Lets you move the mouse in eight different
  directions
• Can also adjust the speed of the mouse movement
  by using the set-up overlay

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Touch Features
• Response rate slows response time of keyboard
• Required Lift Off must lift finger off before
  any other key will respond
• Key sound audio feedback when key is pressed

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Repeat Features
• IBM Repeat Rate sets speed at which characters
  repeat
• IBM Repeat prevents keys from repeating
• Repeat Latching latches the next key until the
  keyboard is touched anywhere, allows user to
  watch the screen

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Shift Features
• Shift Key Action
• Latching latches for one keystroke
• Locking holds shift key on
• No Latch turns off latch
• Indicator Lights
• Three
• six

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Additional features
• Feature Reset restores factory defaults
• List Features -open word processor and press list
• Mouse Arrows arrows function as a mouse
• Apple Mouse Speed - changes the speed of the
  mouse
• Smart Typing makes typing faster
• Custom Overlay level useful for changing switch
  settings
• Data Send rate used with custom overlays

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Troubleshooting
• Keyboard Reset deletes custom overlays, clears
  memory
• IBM Standard Keyboard Attached for older
  keyboards
• AT Arrows for AT style PC for page up/down, etc

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Set-up Overlay Other Features

• Test Pad allows you to check the effect of a
  feature once you have set it

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Applications

• Intellitalk
• Talking word processor
• Intellitalk version III has
• many new features.
• Keep in mind this is separate
• software, adds the speech feature.

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Using Intellikeys with Switches

• Useful for individuals with motor difficulties
• Plug in most common switches into the two switch
  jacks
• Use Intellikeys with Switch driven software

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Choice Making

• Use Intellikeys as a choice making activity with
  young kids
• Use Intellikeys as an early communication tool

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Custom Overlays

• Purchase software to custom build overlays
• Overlay Maker
• check price

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Physical Adaptations
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Inclusion

• Birthday Party Fun
• Party Games
• Singing Songs

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Reading Writing

• Participation with peers
• Custom overlays
• Web site
• www.intellitools .com
• Activity exchange

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Summary

• Goals of this training
• Overview of Intellikeys/Equipment
• Classic and USB versions
• Basic Operation/Applications
• Ideas for you/Strategies

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Why we need technology training
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