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Skills Needed to Operate Equipment

Keyboard input, speech output:

touch typing skills, (possibly using the system to teach the skills)
ability to move from home row to cursor movement keys (possibly using this system to teach the skill)
fair to good hearing ability (if poor hearing do headphones help?)
ability to understand synthesized speech in word and character mode
ability to sequence at least four steps independently (this means using notes)
memorize at least ten commands

Braille input, speech output:

ability to write at least grade one braille, grade two braille preferred
fair to good hearing ability (if poor hearing do headphones help?)
ability to understand synthesized speech in word and character mode
ability to sequence at least four steps independently (this means using notes)
memorize at least ten commands

Braille input, speech and braille output:

all of the "braille input, speech output" plus:
ability to read at least grade one, grade two preferred
ability to recognize and read computer braille code

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