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The cost of learning disabilities diagnosis

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The process of having your child evaluated for learning difficulties, meeting with the school, interpreting test results, and deciding how to help your child is daunting. And it’s one countless parents will have to navigate. One in five students face learning and thinking difficulties such as dyslexia, ADHD, trouble with written expression, dyscalculia, and others”. The school can evaluate your child for free. Or you can hire a private evaluator, which costs $1,000 to $5,000, depending on where you live and the specialist doing the test.

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Homeschool and dyscalculia

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The numberdyslexia blog has reviewed six math programs that they believe are suitable for homeschooling a child with dyscalculia:

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PBS thinks math

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Some wonderful free math resources are available through “thinkmath” that gets published by PBS. See this months selection in the link below.

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Did you know animal could count?

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Very interesting article by Jordana Cepelewicz here is a quote:

Scientists are puzzling over why nature has gifted so many animals with at least a rudimentary knack for numbers, and what if anything that might tell us about the deep origins of human mathematics. There are still more questions than answers, but neuroscientists and other experts have learned enough to amend and broaden perspectives on animal cognition. Even in “tiny brains like those in bees or even ants,” said Brian Butterworth, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London and author of the forthcoming book Can Fish Count?, “there is a mechanism that enables the creature to read the language of the universe.”

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