Some schools still ignorant or misinformed about Dyscalculia

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Sometimes you get the impression that school officials have to pay the assessments out of their own pocket or that they work only to minimize the detection of learning disabilities. Why is that? What is that? Or do we only hear the bad stories? In our link today a good piece of advice from Dyscalculia.org

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High blood pressure and Dyscalculia

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New research and some piecing together of previous data, indicates that children with a high blood pressure have a higher likelihood of having ADHD. Even when the researchers took out ADHD as a factor, children with high blood pressure were still found to have more learning disabilities. So should we get our children with higher blood pressure examined for learning disabilities immediately?

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Counting ability not a good predictor for Dyscalculia

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One in five American Adults is functionally innumerate, which means, they cannot solve 8th grade math problems. Research now shows that the ability to count, emphasis in the early grades, does little to predict math issues later in life. In fact it maybe better to discuss some more complicated math problems over the dinner table to give the kids a boost.

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