Category Archives: Detection

Brain studies may help Dyscalculia

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Researchers at Benasich’s lab in Newark, N.J. study patterns in the brain waves of infants and toddlers. They try to come up with models that predict later academic success based on brain activity at a young age. Eventually we might be able to establish how a kid needs to learn by scanning their brain before they enter school. Read the great article in the Scientic American in the link for today.

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Recognize Dyscalculia in Elementary school

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The learning ally has a good article today with clear signs visible in Elementary students that indicate that there could be Dyscalculia. Share this with your teachers, share this with your school officials. Still too many children get diagnosed too late with Dyscalculia thus creating issues in class and in their personal life and making it a lot harder to re-mediate the condition.

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Dyscalculia and Dyslexia, it is in the genes

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Apparently the ability to read and write and do math has a considerable overlap at the genes level. We link to a study about it, here a quote:

Understanding the etiology (causes or origins) of complex cognitive characteristics like numeracy and literacy ability is key to assisting children with achieving their potential and gaining knowledge of population variation in cognitive abilities and the substantial genetic components shared with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia.

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So Dyscalculia really has little or nothing to do with IQ

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One of the ways people would go about finding out if a child has dyscalculia, is by looking at the IQ and then confirming that math skills are much lower as would be predicted by the general IQ. This discrepancy would indicate the presence of dyscalculia. Now however a study done earlier this year, also looked at children with lower or average IQ and found that number sense can be equally affected, independent from the IQ.

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