Companion Resources - Makemepulse

Companion Resources

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Empathy to action

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To complement the interactive experience of "Through My Eyes", we developed Companion Resources, a digital space designed to turn empathy into action. While the simulations offer a powerful emotional insight, Companion Resources provides users with the tools to go deeper, reflect, and learn. In this section, visitors can take quizzes to test their understanding of learning and thinking differences, complete self-advocacy sentence builders to help articulate their needs, and explore practical tips on how to be a better ally to kids with LTDs. The platform also encourages personal reflection. Users can build a digital album of their own strengths and challenges, helping to normalize self-awareness and

Companion Resources - Makemepulse

In creating Companion Resources, we extended the same art direction established in "Through a Child's Eyes" to ensure a cohesive and immersive experience. The warm color palette, soft shapes, and playful visual language were carried over into new illustrations and interactive content, creating a familiar and inviting environment.

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This consistent design approach helped reinforce the connection between the emotional storytelling of the simulations and the educational tools in the companion space. By keeping the tone light, creative, and kid-friendly, we were able to present important information and self-advocacy tools in a way that feels approachable, empowering, and fun.

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The activities

Companion Resources features a range of playful, thoughtful activities that build on the empathy sparked by the simulations. Users can take quizzes to test their knowledge, complete self-advocacy prompts to express their needs, explore allyship tips through an interactive totem, and create a personal strengths and challenges album. Each activity is designed to be fun, accessible, and empowering, helping users learn, reflect, and support others more effectively.

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The Strengths and Challenges activity, is a simple yet powerful tool that encourages users to reflect on their own abilities. Through a playful, visual interface, they can select and organize traits that represent what they're good at and what they find difficult. This activity helps normalize the idea that everyone has a unique mix of strengths and challenges, and it encourages self-awareness in a way that feels positive and empowering. It's not about labeling, it's about understanding and owning who you are.

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Through this interactive tool, users receive practical tips and create visual reminders to help them become better allies to people who learn and think differently. It fosters empathy and understanding while equipping users with actionable strategies to create more inclusive environments in work, school, and social settings.

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This guided experience helps users identify their needs and practice articulating them effectively. It empowers individuals with learning differences to advocate for themselves by providing structured frameworks and language for communicating their requirements in various situations.

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This interactive quiz invites users to discover which famous people have publicly spoken about their learning and thinking differences like ADHD and dyslexia. By showcasing successful role models, it normalizes neurodiversity, reduces stigma, and builds confidence in users who may share similar experiences.

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