Peripherals/Child Friendly Mouse

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Many young children don’t have fully developed motor skills (fine motor skills in the hand and fingers typically develop fully between the ages of 5 and 6) and often have trouble using traditional mouse buttons. Children of this age often click next to targets, find pressing down unintuitive, and grip all their fingers at the same time so that the mouse is squeezed rather than clicked. This can lead to frustration and detract from the educational experience.

This pdf describes one possible solution. Besides being small, it has a single wide soft button under the front.