#12 The Eating Game

Supplies that you will need

1. Splints

2. Bandannas

3. Vegetables

4. Plates

5. Silverware

6. Table

Directions for The Eating Game

When everyone comes to Eating Game you will have all the people sit down around the table. When everyone is seated around the table and quiet you can start telling them what they will be doing in The Eating Game. At the eating game you will tell people that they might have to take turns because there will probably not be enough of all the supplies for everyone to do it all at the same time. The first thing that will happen is that we will pair you up with partners. After that we will hand out splints and bandannas. Your partner has a job during the game and that is to help you tie your bandanna over your eyes so that it will not fall down. You will second put a splint on each hand and then you will put a bandanna over your eye. Then after that you will have a plate with vegetables on and you will have five minutes to cut things up and eat them. After you have done it for five minutes you will take your things off and give them to your partner and help them put the bandanna over their eyes after your partner has the splints already on. Your partner will do the same thing for five minutes.

Time: after 10 minutes start a 5 minute discussion.

Discussion Questions

1. What was frustrating about this game? Why?

2 What was enjoyable about this game? Why?

3. Did you learn anything new?

4. Does anyone know what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents?

(If no one can figure out what kind of disability or disabilities the game

represents tell them.)

5. Discuss this disability and the challenges people with it might face on a

daily basis.

6 What could we do as a society to make public spaces and processes more

accommodating for people living with these disabilities.

Disabilities the Eating Game Represents: Intention Hand Tremors and Blindness.

Things to watch out for:

Make sure no one peak through their bandanna and make sure no one picks up the food and just bites it off.

#11 The Whisper Game

Supplies That You Will Need:

1. List of questions

2. Ear plugs

Directions to the Games:

In this game you will give each person a pair of earplugs and after that you will pair each person up into partners. After everyone is with a partner you will pass out a page of questions to each pair. After everyone has everything you will have one person put in their ear plugs and then your partner will whisper the questions to you and your partner who has the ear plugs in has to answer the questions as best as they can. You will do that for five minutes and then you switch parts do the same things. When you switch parts the person who already had the ear plus in can take them out.

After the partners both have done the game for 5 minutes you will start a 5 minute discussion.

Discussion Questions

1. What was Frustrating about this game? Why?

2. What was enjoyable about this game? Why?

3. Did you learn anything new?

4. Does anyone know what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents?

(If no one can figure out what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents tell them)

5. Discuss this disability and the challenges people with it might face on a daily basis.

6. What could we do as a society to make public spaces and processes more accommodating for people living with disabilities?

Disability The Game Represents: Hearing Impairments

Things to Watch out for:

Make sure during the 5 minutes the person wearing the earplugs does not take them out. The other thing to watch for is make sure the person reading the questions is whispering the questions to the partner.

Questions for the Whisper Game

What is your best friends name?

What is your favorite kind of music?

What is your favorite subject?

What is your favorite animal?

What do you like to do the most in the summer?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

What is your favorite color?

What do you like to with your friends?

What is your favorite thing to do in your free time?

What is your favorite movie?

#10 The Interview Game

Supplies That You Will Need:

1. 1 List of questions

2. 1 mouth guard for each person (If you do not have the money or the time to get mouth guards, you can make Jello and have them cut into squares and put it in their mouth but if they are vegetarians you might have to also make Pudding and put some in a 3 oz paper bathroom cup.)

Directions to the game:

In this game you will have each person pair up with a partner. You will each be given a mouth guard, (Jello or Pudding) and a list of questions. When you get the Mouth guards (Jello or Pudding) only one of you will put the mouth guard (Jello or Pudding) in your mouth. The partner will ask you a question’s. After the person answers the question’s your partner will repeat what they think their partner said. After five minutes is up the person who already had the mouth guard (Jello or Pudding) in will take it out (if you used food swallow the food) and you and your partner will switch roles and do the same thing for five minutes.

Do this game for about 10 minutes and then have a 5-minute discussion.

Discussion Questions

1. What was frustrating about this game? Why?

2. What was enjoyable about this game? Why?

3. Did you learn anything new?

4. Does anyone know what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents?

(If no one can figure out what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents tell them.)

5. Discuss this disability and the challenges people with it might face on a daily basis.

6. What could we do as a society to make public spaces and processes more accommodating for people living with these disabilities?

Disability this Game Represents: Speech and Language Disabilities

Questions for The Interview Game

1. What is your full name?

2. Where do you work?

3. Where do you go to school?

4. What is your favorite subject?

5. What is your favorite animal?

6. Where have you always wanted to travel?

#9 The Distraction Game

Supplies You Will Need

1. A Table

2. Chairs

3. Pencils

4. Math Problems

Directions to the game:

In this game you will have everyone paired up with a partner. In this game you will have one person sitting down at the table doing math problems. Your partner will be standing behind you making weird noises or hand movements in front of your face. Your Partner will be trying to distract you so that you cannot do your math problems and get them done in time.

Do this game for about 10 minutes and then have a 5 minute discussion.

Discussion Questions

1. What was frustrating about this game? Why?

2. What was enjoyable about this game? Why?

3. Did you learn anything new?

4. Does anyone know what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents?

(If no one can figure out what kind of disability or disabilities the game represents tell them.)

5. Discuss this disability and the challenges people with it might face on a daily basis.

6. What could we do as a society to make public spaces and processes more accommodating for people living with these disabilities?

Disability this game represents: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

#8 The Sign-Language Game

Supplies You Will Need:
1. A sign-language chart
2. A couple of different sentences that each partner group has to communicate written on notecards.

Directions to the game:
In this game you will have everyone paired up with a partner. You will be sitting across the table from your partner. At this station no one can use their voice they most talk by using sign language. Some people will know a little and some people might not know any sign language at all and that is fine because if you do not know something in sign language you will look at the cart to see how to say something in sign language. They will also have a few sentences the will have to say to eachother in sign language. You will each get a paper with sentences on. If you do not know how to say things in sign language go up and look at the cart to say how to say things in sign language.

Do this game for about 10 minutes and then have a five minute discussion.

What to watch for:Make sure no one talks at this game with their mouth. Make sure that they only talk in Sign Language

Disability this game represents: Deafness

#7 The Racing Game

Supplies You Will Need:
1. Toys with wheels like cars or trains
2. A box to put all the toys in
3. Something to tie their legs together with (e.g. rope)


Set-Up:
This game will start at the bottom of a ramp, with a starting line at the end of the ramp and a line were the race ends.

Directions: You probably will have to take turns depending on how wide the ramp is and how many people are in the group. When everyone gets to the station you will have them tie their legs together. When they do the game you will have them start at the end of a ramp. You will explain to everyone that they will need to take turns because there will probably not be enough room for everyone to do this at the same time. You will explain to everyone that when they do this and they start the race the first thing they will have to do is reach in the box and get out a toy but when you get your toy you can not stand up or it would defeat the purpose of the game. After you get a toy you will put the wheels on the floor and then have to scoot yourself on the floor while you scoot your toy on the floor and you only will have so much time depending on how many people are in the group. Whoever gets across the ending point will get a piece of candy.

After you have done this you will have a discussion to see if anyone knows what rare disability this represents.

Disabilities This Game Represents: a rare disability called Mermaid Syndrome and Paraplegia.

#6 The Word Game

What Supplies You Will Need:
1. Braille Alphabets
2. Bandanas
3. Pencils
4. A list of easy words in print that they have to write in braille
5. A list of easy words in Braille that they have to write in print
6. Raised line paper

Directions:
When everyone comes to this game you will have everyone sit around a table. When they are all sitting around the and are being quiet you can start explaining what they will be doing at the station. At this station you will give everyone a Braille alphabet, a bandanna, a list of Braille words to try to interpret in Braille on raised line paper and then everyone will also need a pencil. For the first 5 minutes you will have everyone study the Braille alphabet. After the five minutes they will put their bandanna on and after that they will have to feel around for the list of words, the pencil and the raised line paper. When you find them you will read the word in Braille and then write on the raised Line paper in print what it says in Braille.

What Disability The Word Game Represents: Blindness