The exercises did not replicate dyslexia itself. Instead, they disrupted skills adults, and children without dyslexia or other learning disabilities, normally take for granted — hearing directions, recognizing letters, writing and remembering words — while instructors applied pressure familiar to many classrooms.

Participants rotated through six stations. In one, they attempted to fill out a worksheet on tide pools while listening to a recording of overlapping, muffled voices that dissolved into a blur of numbers, colors and sea creatures. In another, they covered their writing hand and traced letters by watching their movements through a mirror.

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