No dancing with dyscalculia

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See how horrific this learning disability can be when teachers are not aware.

Yes! This! I have dyslexia/dyscalculia/ADHD. In 7th grade you couldn’t attend events like dances if you had less than a C in any class and I always had a D in math. I was devastated to miss them and finally my mom had to go in and raise hell so I could go to the last dance.
— 🌊Nicci (@Nicccixo) November 28, 2020

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Learning disabled, not differently abled

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Read the opinion from Stephen Stern, the chair of Jewish studies at Gettysburg College, about proposals to start learning disabled people instead “differently abled” people. He puts his case forward and disagrees with this practice and gives an extensive explanation for it.

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Statistician with Dyscalculia

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Presented here is a case study of Dylan (second author), an individual with dyscalculia who decided to major in statistics at University of California, Berkeley and become a statistician. Although she experienced significant issues of access—both in the standard tools used to do mathematics, and in navigating the structures at the university—she developed systems to enable her to compensate. She collaborated in this research enterprise in order to share with researchers, teachers, parents, and students her experiences with dyscalculia and how she was able to succeed in higher level mathematics.

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