Fractions and Dyscalculia

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have confirmed that there is a clear distinction between children with Low Achievement and Dyscalculia when evaluating fraction problems. Where children with Low Math Achievement typically get caught up by grade 8, the difficulties in solving Fraction problems continue through grade 8 for those with Dyscalculia. This and some more great findings in the report that you can find in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

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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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