Dyscalculia – the silent illiteracy

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A story about Dyscalculia and how little the world realizes that this really exists. So many children still feel stupid because their brains are working a different way and the school system does not recognize and support this condition. All we can do is spread the word and support the people who do the research and provide treatment.

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A new initiative

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Here is someone who dreams about having all the help and information about Dyscalculia and other learning disabilities available in one place. A great plan and we wish her all the best and will support the plan where possible. They have a catchy name for the website although there isn’t anything to see yet.

dysenablia.com

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Numbers crunch for maths phobics

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MY DAUGHTER Flora was just six when she announced that she didn’t understand a thing in maths lessons at school. We raised it at the next parents’ evening and were reassured that her maths was fine, but we began to notice that she sometimes made wildly illogical guesses when attempting basic addition and was easily confused by anything numerical.

She was also getting upset about maths at school, but the more her teachers tried to reassure us that she was doing well, the more Flora insisted she didn’t let them see that she spent maths lessons copying other children.

It wasn’t until she moved to a new school two years later that her difficulties were identified, revealing such a vast gulf between her attainment in numeracy and in literacy that we suspected she could have dyscalculia, a kind of dyslexia with numbers.

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Knitting with dyslexia and dyscalculia

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A little while ago I got sucked into the Draw Something craze and was playing against my friend Danielle (A Stash Addict) one evening. I had drawn a picture of Elvis. Danielle had to guess the picture and then spell out the word using the five tiles provided to earn us both some points. If you don’t know this game, you can watch a recording of the screen as the other person is guessing your drawing – it’s fun to do this as you can see how much of the drawing they saw before they made a correct guess.

While I was watching the recording, I could see that from the very start of the picture (the black quiff) she knew exactly what it was, yet it took her many attempts to rearrange the 5 tiles to spell out ‘Elvis’ – by which time the picture was detailed down to the final rhinestone. I have always known Danielle to be dyslexic, and her first couple of attempts were a little bit amusing, but as her repeated attempts to get the letters in the right order continued, I really had a sense of massive frustration for her and glimpsed for the first time how difficult it must be to do some of the things I take for granted. Danielle also has dyscalculia, which is the numeric equivalent of dyslexia.

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Which mathematical concepts would be more widely understood if better explained ?

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I have dyscalculia. I can count with 1:1 correlation and I do understand some numbers are larger as I count up, and smaller as I count down. I just don’t understand their relationships. And I cannot remember numbers because there is no emotional association. I also have synesthesia and my memory is connected to emotions. That is, if I have no feelings about an event I saw or heard I don’t remember it. Math is too cold for me to focus upon. I wish it could have been taught in a way that made it matter. I surround myself with people who can do math and from an early age my children did all my math for me. Now I just ignore it entirely.

The concepts which would be better understood by the general public if better explained are the relationships between numbers — how they relate to one another. For example, I see people who can look at a profit and loss statement and immediately understand how a business can be improved. I wish I had that ability, and I wish that kind of understanding were taught or could be taught more effectively and more explicitly.

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