Category Archives: Detection

Resource for teachers to find dyscalculia

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Teachers are the most likely people to notice dyscalculia in our kids. Think about it, the kids themselves don’t know yet if they are struggling and the parents don’t see what is going on at school but the teachers have a first hand view on the learning process. The Austrialian government has published this nice resources, with lots of references to help them recognize the disability.

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The curse of the gift

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The US psychologist James T Webb warns that gifted children are often misdiagnosed as having behavioural, emotional or mental disorders. Even when they do have such disorders, the chances are that the disorder will be attended to, but not the underlying ultra-brightness. They will be pathologised, rather than understood and supported.

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Quick Dyscalculia test

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The Learning Success Blog brings us a nice quick Dyscalculia test, or screening to see if there is a possibility of the learning disability with your child or student. Go ahead and try it and when you see issues, go seek help, the kids deserve our support and the sooner the better.

Read all about it HERE (link to the test on scribd.com)

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Procrastination and dyscalculia

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Today a link to a site with a forum and some people exchanging messages on how math has made their life miserable but they also talk about not having been screened for dyscalculia yet. Here you have it, if you don’t take care of identifying the problem and getting screened or tested it is hard to get resources and help to cope with the math issues. Do not delay, do not make it a new year’s intention but do it NOW.

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