Ability Awareness Experience:
Each student will experience a sensory disability (vision or hearing loss) or muscular skeletal disability (any physical disability directly affecting mobility of body parts) for a 3-hour period. For safety purposes, each student will participate with a partner who will be observing various interactions and assisting when necessary. This can be anyone you choose. Following the experience, each student will submit a 2-3 page report detailing his or her experience (i.e., what they did, how they felt, how others reacted, what happened, etc.)
HELPFUL HINTS: Try to remain true to your disability for the entire 3 hours. Use eye patches with sunglasses instead of an obvious blind fold. Use bandages, tape or braces to restrict movement of limbs instead of just holding your arm behind your back or not using your leg. Wheelchairs can sometimes be borrowed or rented at your local hospital. Remember to experience your disability for at least part of the three hours in a public setting, i.e. grocery shopping, going to the movies, taking a hike, going out for lunch or dinner, etc. In general, try to do what you would normally be doing for those three hours.
Please submit your assignment into your VISTA PRM 326 Assignment Box.
Once you have completed the assignment in this Module, you should:
return to Class
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