"They learn to touch-type, but they also learn to spell in a multisensory way," says Sue Atwood, deputy head at Lessness Heath primary school in the London borough of Bexley. "They can hear the words over headphones and make the words on the screen. It also helps a child's self-confidence when they go to the computer, even when they are doing things like creative writing because, once they can touch-type, the ideas can flow."