Category Archives: Personal Stories

My struggle with dyscalculia

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Brilliant or Terrible?

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He woke up one day and started counting. They said that he has hypercalculia.

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Hypercalculia is a rare developmental condition characterized by exceptionally heightened, precocious, or prodigious mathematical calculation abilities, particularly in mental arithmetic. Often associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and savant syndrome, it involves skills that far exceed the individual’s general intellectual functioning

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The morning I decided not to send my 14-year-old daughter back to school

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My daughter has dyslexia, dyscalculia and inattentive ADHD. Still, on paper, she wasn’t “failing.” She was getting by. But the cost of getting by had become brutal. Daily nausea. Crying every morning. Crippling fatigue. Anxiety that had her frozen in her seat, running on adrenaline just to survive each day, then collapsing at home where it felt safe to fall apart.

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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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