Dyscalculia Women’s awareness

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Wonderful article in thewomenshealthmagazine blog about Dyscalculia. The page has intense colors that change while you are reading so be warned when you have sensitive eyes.

Read all about it HERE

Visit us at https://DyscalculiaHeadlines
A service of Math and Dyscalculia Services https://DyscalculiaServices
Trouble with Math? https://DyscalculiaTesting.com
Free Screeners https://DyscalculiaScreener.org
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Dyscalculia and the Jenga effect

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Many of our students with Dyscalculia come to us when they are in 4th or 5th grade. It is then when they notice that their foundation in math is not solid and the brick wall (as we refer to the math building) collapses because the foundation is not right. Cat Eadle from the Dyscalculia Network from the UK has a different but very striking comparison and refers to it as the Jenga effect. When students need something from that shaky foundation the tower of math collapses on them.

Read all about it HERE

Dyscalculia Hacks for Teens

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The website from Theara, a consultancy specializing in all things neurodiverse, they list wonderful hacks for Teens.

Read all about it HERE

Project manager with dyscalculia

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Good story from a project manager, who has dyscalculia but still is very successful. The struggles with quantities and quantifying in formation are offset by the ability to process and effectively respond to more information than a non-dyscalculic can.

Read all about it HERE

Masterclass Number Lines

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Children may get easily confused about various topics in math. They may not see the connection between the various components of math and thus have difficulty understanding and retaining the math topics. Dr Schreuder has a masterclass about smart number lines that will help pull it all together and use one method to explain the students various math topics so they start to see how the whole system hangs together.

Read all about it HERE

Dyscalculia at the gym

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Sometimes at the most unexpected places,. your dyscalculia can kick in:

Dyscalculia Poem

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It is not often that we find a poem about dyscalculia. Mostly you’ll find sad ballades about the learning disability but today we link to a very nice poem.

Read all about it HERE

Accommodations at home and at school for dyscalculia

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The techeadvocate blog comes with this great article that lists a range of accommodations easily to implement both at home and at school. A great discussion starter for your next parent/teacher conference. Help the teachers realize that the children deserve support to level the playing field with their pierce. See all the suggestions in our link for today.

Read all about it HERE

Careful with words when talking about neurodiversity

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Good article that cautions us to weigh our words carefully when talking about neuro diversity. “The pathology paradigm says: there is a normal, healthy brain and an abnormal, unhealthy brain. The neurodiversity paradigm says: there is no such thing as a normal brain. Good article that adds a new perspective.

Read all about it HERE

ADHD and finances

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Some unexpected consequences from having various learning disabilities, including ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia. All clearly explained in this article.

Read all about it HERE

Build the foundational number concepts first

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Rather than address isolated conceptual gaps, remediation should build the foundational number concepts first,” say the authors of a Science article. In other words, conceptual gaps can be avoided by making sure the basic underlying number concepts are understood. When assessing the abilities of individual children, the authors recommend to pay special attention to set enumeration and comparison “to differentiate dyscalculia from other causes of low numeracy”.

Read all about it HERE

Supreme court gets involved in Dyscalculia

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The Supreme Court recently granted relief to a student suffering from a learning disability named “Dyscalculia” by declaring that she has completed the Masters of Design course in the Indian Institute of Technology.

Read all about it HERE

Helpful site for Dyscalculia

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In our link for today a very helpful site that, just like this site, DyscalculiaHeadlines.com, provides all kind of information about Dyscalculia, gained from all over the web with links to the sources.

Read all about it HERE

How Dyscalculia and Dyslexia can differ

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New research shows that the dyscalculia population has difficulties in automatically associating numerals with magnitudes but no problems in associating letters with phonemes, whereas the dyslexia population shows the opposite pattern.

Read all about it: HERE (this link may not work as their site has some issues lately)

Requesting accommodations for testing

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This is a collegeboard page that details how to request testing accommodations.

Read all about it HERE

What is different and the same in Learning disabilities

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Many things are the same with learning disabilities and then again, many things are different. See the article where they give a nice overview. It is a good overview of early warning signs that are the same for most learning disabilities.

Read all about it HERE

Numeracy difficulties in adulthood

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Good article from the UK on a dyslexia site, making the point that many people will hide their trouble with reading and writing but more and more people are vocal about their issues with math. So many in fact that is drowns out the ones who really have a math learning disability.

When you want to explore more see https://AdultDyscalculia.org

Skills to distinguish Developmental Dyscalculia from typical developing students

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Both domain-specific nonsymbolic magnitude representation and domain-general executive function both contribute to developmental dyscalculia. Thus, both domain-specific and domain-general abilities will be necessary to investigate and to intervene in developmental dyscalculia groups in the future.

Read all about it: HERE

Numbers go into space?

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Interesting research into developmental dyscalculia.

Worse performance of adults with DD in the number line task might be due a deficit in mapping numbers onto space which can be partly overcome relying on reference points.

Read all about it: HERE

Fish and Dyscalculia

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if we want to study the genetics behind mathematical abilities, we might benefit from a faster growing species, such as fish.

Read all about it: HERE

Child find mandate from the IDEA

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As a licensed special education teacher and disabilities advocate, one of my first and foremost responsibilities is to follow the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This law includes the mandate that districts must identify all students with disabilities in their jurisdiction, including homeless students and students placed privately.

Read all about it: HERE

Children with Dyscalculia need/deserve help

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How would a student with poor eyesight fare if his glasses were removed? She could hardly follow the lessons anymore. Assignments on the blackboard would be illegible. And she would soon be getting bad grades. Since that, of course, would be unfair, students are allowed to wear glasses. And while this is still lacking, your disability is compensated in other ways, for example, reading aloud or more time to read. The same should apply to students with dyscalculia, says Dieter Budke, chairman of the “Cologne LRS (dyslexia) and dyscalculia working group”.

Read all about it: HERE

A novel approach to subtypes of developmental dyscalculia

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Still unpublished work on a new approach to assess the subtypes of Developmental Dyscalculia. Something to follow and it looks promising.

Read all about it: HERE

Details about the ANS

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The approximate number system is usually associated with acquiring the skill to understand larger numbers. Now this new research challenges that and finds out that the ANS cannot be responsible for children learning about the larger numbers at a young age.

Read all about it: HERE

Teacher Education by Design

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Check out the website from Teacher Education by Design (TEDD) a project of The University of Washington’s College of Education supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

They have a wonderful library of tools and resources to educate children.

Read all about it: HERE

The Dyscalculia Trifecta

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Listen to this podcast in our link for today. They discuss the Dyscalculia trifecta, Time, Money, and Place Value. These topics make up the majority of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade math work, and they are especially problematic for people with dyscalculia. What can be done to help?

Read all about it: HERE

Supporting learners in primary

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Great article on how to support children with dyscalculia or who are bad at math in the primary classroom.

Read all about it: HERE

How occupational therapy can help with a learning disability

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Occupational therapy uses different modes of treatment to stimulate and rewire the brain to enhance functional goals of an individual. They work on gross motor skills, fine motor skills, sensory processing skills, sitting tolerance, attention and social emotional development in children.

Read the article in our link for today to see how occupational therapy could help with the learning disability of your child.

Read all about it: HERE

The basis for Developmental Dyscalculia

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Good article about what the basis for developmental dyscalculia could be:

a unique cognitive deficit because of a
unique pathophysiology
multiple cognitive deficits because of
multiple or unique pathophysiology
multiple behavioural disorders

Read all about it: HERE

Avoiding the math requirement with dyscalculia

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In our link for today a forum with people who are looking for ways to avoid the math requirement in their studies, based on their dyscalculia. The question is if avoiding the math requirement is the right path forward or the only option. If you have been assessed with dyscalculia and you have not done any remediation yet, you may be better served by trying to work through the problems to bring your dyscalculia to a level where you are still able to lead a happy life and deal with numbers and pass your math requirement. It may not be the fastest way, but in the long run will bring you more benefits.

You won’t be able to avoid making the best choice for your mortgage plan, you won’t be able to avoid making some pension calculations, and there are a ton more things throughout your life where you’ll need some math.

Read all about it: HERE

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Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

Dyscalculia Women’s awareness

Dyscalculia and the Jenga effect

Dyscalculia Hacks for Teens

Project manager with dyscalculia

Masterclass Number Lines

Dyscalculia at the gym

Dyscalculia Poem

Accommodations at home and at school for dyscalculia

Careful with words when talking about neurodiversity

ADHD and finances

Build the foundational number concepts first

Supreme court gets involved in Dyscalculia

Helpful site for Dyscalculia

How Dyscalculia and Dyslexia can differ

Requesting accommodations for testing

What is different and the same in Learning disabilities

Numeracy difficulties in adulthood

Skills to distinguish Developmental Dyscalculia from typical developing students

Numbers go into space?

Fish and Dyscalculia

Child find mandate from the IDEA

Children with Dyscalculia need/deserve help

A novel approach to subtypes of developmental dyscalculia

Details about the ANS

Teacher Education by Design

The Dyscalculia Trifecta

Supporting learners in primary

How occupational therapy can help with a learning disability

The basis for Developmental Dyscalculia

Avoiding the math requirement with dyscalculia