Some universities and their professors are just ignorant

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Read the horrendous story about how professors in this day and age still can ignore learning disabilities and deny simple accommodations to those who need it. Our Dyscalculia Awareness course should be compulsory for all teaching professionals.

Read all about it: HERE

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Lawsuit for accommodations

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In response to a student’s lawsuit claiming he failed two classes because the school inconsistently accommodated his learning disabilities, Southern Oregon University argues that Mikhail Savona received “numerous accommodations” and said it stands by the academic standards committee that denied changing his F grade in a freshman-level class last year.

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Did we mention Early Detection?

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Early detection is so important for a great remediation of dyscalculia.

In our link for today our online test so you can quick and easy get a solid screening done.

Below a picture of a tweeter who is an example of how things can go wrong in someone’s school history.

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inspiring stories

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At Brandfort college they heard inspiring stories from a range of accomplished women; one stuck out:

From Bev Fox, head of FE art, science and humanities at the college, there was a story of overcoming dyslexia and dyscalculia and discrimination. As a physical trainer in the Army, she was able to train young men to join the elite Parachute Regiment but was not allowed to become a Para herself. That frustration, along with the military’s stance on LGBT personnel at the time, saw her move into the prison service and then into teaching, as a public services and sports tutor.

She said: “My advice is, whatever you want to be, just go for it.”

Read all about it: HERE

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Language confusion adds to the problem

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From a tweet by @sparrowlicious_ 

A problem in German: because of the way we say numbers I always get terribly confused with some two to more digit numbers. (for example: “seven-and-thirty” is 37 but my  brain has trouble translating that) I fear I have slight dyscalculia

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