Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

Playing Dungeons & Dragons with Dyscalculia

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Reddit is a site where people exchange messages and there are sub reddits for various interests. Well there is one about the game Dungeons & Dragons and someone in there is asking what to do now one of the players in their team has joined with Dyscalculia. Amazing to see the creativity of that community to try and help him out. Not all suggestions are good or make any sense but wonderful how they all try to help. By the time I read it there were over 70 comments.

Read all about it: HERE

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Rethink those labels

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Rethinking Giftedness from YouCubed on Vimeo.

Great quote: The labelling of some students sends negative messages about potential, that are out of synch with important knowledge of neuroplasticity showing that everyone’s brains can grow and change. But few people realize that those labels are damaging for those who receive them too.

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Dyscalculia and Attention span

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Significant educational delays, even in the absence of cognitive-processing
deficits, can be attributed to the inability to sustain attention.

Read the very interesting research by Ronald L Lindsay* MD, Nisonger Center UAP, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;
Terry Tomazic PhD, Department of Research Methodology,
St Louis University, St Louis, MO;
Melvin D Levine MD, Clinical Center for the Study of
Development and Learning, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC; and
Pasquale J Accardo MD, Westchester Institute for Human
Development, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.

Read all about it: HERE

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