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Dyscalculia; it’s a thing!

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Here is a lady who helps to bring some good awareness to Dyscalculia. She starts her story like this:

How many people have you heard ever say ‘oh I have number dyslexia’? I bet there are a few people. Guess what? It’s its own thing. It is called dyscalculia, I know it kind of sounds like Dracula, but trust me it’s not a vampire related learning disability. If you haven’t put a face to this learning disability yet, I have dyscalculia.

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Dyscalculia and “number sense”

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Results from a recent study in the magazine “Cognition”,  showed that poor number activity in children with dyscalculia was reflective of their inability to perform simple numerical tasks. Refinement in numerical precision may not occur in children with dyscalculia at the same developmental pace compared to typically developing children.

Therefore, a ten-year-old child with dyscalculia would have the same numerical precision and “number sense” as a five-year-old typically developing child.

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Defining and Diagnosing Developmental Dyscalculia

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The studies into what defines Dyscalculia are not a numerous as the studies into Dyslexia. The definitions and diagnoses vary also from study to study. Still a huge percentage of the population is known for severe difficulties with Math. The writers suggest a developmental model of Dyscalculia to categorize the various causes of difficulty with math. Their main points:

• There is convincing evidence that basic numerical skills are impaired in Developmental Dyscalculia (DD). Therefore, purely educational (curricular) tests are not adequate to tap the characteristic numerical deficits associated with DD.
• DD is a heterogeneous disorder (like other neurodevelopmental disorders). Multi-dimensional assessments tracking different numerical representations and arithmetic processes should be used to evaluate response accuracy, speed,

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