Misunderstood Minds Simulations

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1. Go to the Misunderstood Minds Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/ Select an area (attention, reading, writing, or mathematics) and work through the simulations. 2. Did the simulations help you to better understand a disability in that area? If so, how? Yes, the stimulations did help me get a better understanding of each disability that is affected by that area. I cannot imagine going through this. The attention section was very hard, especially the visual activity. The stimulations helped to better under how difficult it is for people with disabilities to focus, decode words, try and remember what they read, and even how to put ideas into sequence. 3. As you were going through the simulation, were there things that you

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