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Learning disabilities and mental health

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It is known that people with learning disabilities frequently also struggle with mental health challenges. The good people at Sunshine behavioral health have put this handy guide together with resources that may help you.

Read all about it: HERE

Learning disabled early death?

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Children with a learning disability in Scotland are more likely to die prematurely – often from treatable causes, a report has found.

The Scottish Learning Disability Observatory (SLDO) study found that 34% of these deaths were avoidable.

Previous research has found that adults with a learning disability were twice as likely to die from preventable illnesses.

Read all about it: HERE

Beautiful Math

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Math can be beautiful and the National Galleries of Scotland have dedicated a page with some activities you can do to see how math can help art to be beautiful.

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Scan the brain for learning

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For hundreds of years, school and college exams have been used as practical tools to test students’ learning abilities across the globe. Interestingly, a team of researchers from Georgetown University has now claimed that brain scans provide a more accurate measure of students’ learning than the conventional grade or marks-based systems.

The question is how much the students will be able to apply the learning.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia research continues to grow

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The dyscalculia blog reminds us that the research into dyscalculia continues to grow and has some great recent findings. See them in the link for today.

Read all about it: HERE