Fun Stuff
Try on different Learning Disabilities by following these links :
Attention Simulations:
Reading With Distractions
Listening To Directions
Reading
Decoding Activity: Recognizing Phonemes
Memory Activity: Recall and Understanding
Writing
Graphomotor Activity:Tracing Letters
Composition: Activity Putting Ideas in Sequence
Math
ArithmeticActivity Using Basic Facts
Spatial Activity:Making 3-D Inferences
See more at the Misunderstood Minds: the Web site
www.pbs.org/misunderstoodminds
Parents, teachers, and students looking for the scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school can find both on the companion Web site for Misunderstood Minds. The site includes profiles of the students in the documentary, as well as sections on Attention, Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. Interactive activities, called Experience Firsthand, are designed to give site visitors a sense of what it may be like for a student struggling with a basic skill.
The Web site is a production of WGBH Interactive and Educational Programming and Outreach. Executive producers are Ted Sicker, Michele Korf, and Brigid Sullivan. The producer is Arthur R. Smith.