Careful with the Dyscalculia label

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

A study from Sweden has shown that dyscalculia can be a combination of various conditions and causes. The advice from the researcher is to be careful to label the kids too early but to ensure you get the right diagnoses for the condition. In their own words:

“As far as I’m concerned, we should be cautious about characterizing kids during the first years of school. We shouldn’t stamp kids with a label unnecessarily. Still, we do need to be attentive to the fact that some do have special needs,”

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Going to college with Dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

The transition from High school to college is not an easy one for anyone. Specifically when you have a learning disability this transition can be even more challenging. The good folks at East Carolina University have posted a whole curriculum to ease the transition for students with a learning disability. I believe these pieces of advice are pretty universally applicable so you should check it out:

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Good to know about Dyscalculia

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The examiner.com comes with a few observations that may surprise you about Dyscalculia. The page includes a link to an online screening for learning disabilities. By asking a couple of questions they estimate the risk that you would have a learning disability.

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Dyscalculia overview for Parents and Teachers

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

An overview for both parents and teachers including some advice for teachers on how to detect the learning disability and how to deal with it in the regular class. Also some advice for parents on how to deal with it and when to tell the teachers.

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Using parents to tutor Dyscalculia children

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Tony Attwood from the Dyscalculia centre in the UK has been working on a way to get children with dyscalculia more support: “It was possible to give the
dyscalculic child support five days a week by using the parents, perhaps doing ten minutes work for four evenings a week, and the SENCO or the teaching assistant
who would deliver one longer session, once a week.To ensure the materials were all fully available, we then produced our approach as a parents’ volume and a teachers’ volume, thus ensuring that everyone could work from the same script.
The results have been far better than we had anticipated, and we have tried this
same approach as a method of helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder as well, again with similar success. It is a process that I would
recommend to anyone who is looking to speed up progress with dyscalculic pupils
and students.”

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