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A digital serious game improves the mathematical performance of children with dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia, characterized by deficits in number sense and calculation skills, affects approximately 5–7% of the population and often persists into adulthood. A team from the University of Barcelona and the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has developed and validated a digital serious game to address mathematical difficulties in children with this disorder in the early and middle stages of primary education.

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When school finally fits, everything changes

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Inside the classroom at Trinity School, evidence-based differentiated instruction, in-class therapies, accommodations and assistive technology are seamlessly integrated into daily learning.

we need more schools like this!

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Student with dyscalculia denied dispensation for statistics exams

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A psychology student requested an exemption from statistics exams because she has dyscalculia. Her request was denied. She appealed this to the highest educational court, which decided against her, according to a ruling from last week.

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accommodations help students access learning, but they don’t change how students learn.

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Accommodations bypass cognitive weaknesses — they don’t strengthen them.

That’s the focus of this month’s Learning Brain Monthly session:
🎓 Students Need More Than Accommodations
🗓 November 11, 2025, 12 p.m. Central Time
💻 Live + replay included

In this 60-minute, research-grounded session, you’ll learn:

  • The real differences between accommodations, modifications, and compensatory strategies — and what each does (and doesn’t) change.
  • Why students with IEPs and 504s often make incremental progress, not the gains they need to catch up.
  • The cognitive skills that drive learning — attention, working memory, processing speed, inhibitory control, memory — and how to identify them.
  • How cognitive training can change learning capacity itself.
  • Questions that should be asked at IEP/504 meetings to focus on growth, not just access.
     

Whether you’re a classroom teacher, instructional coach, special educator, administrator or parent, this session will help you reframe how support services can truly close the gap.

👉 Register for the Learning Brain Monthly and Students Need More Than Accommodations

Uncertain future of IDEA law

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Students with disabilities are in the crosshairs of the attacks on public education. In light of the uncertain future of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) — the federal law that serves and protects students with disabilities — parents, educators and policymakers must step up to safeguard protections for our most vulnerable students. 

The law reaches 7.6 million children nationwide. Nearly 15% of all students age 3 to 21 received services through IDEA. It serves as a lifeline for an increasing number of students and their families.

IDEA originated in parental voice and a push for governmental accountability. Unlike most legislation, which is advanced by professional associations and lobbyists, it was driven by an organized, nonpartisan movement of parents of children with disabilities. 

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