Dyscalculia: News from the web:
We have discussed and cautioned you about brain stimulation before but now here is a link to a diy tool to stimulate the brain with the help of wet sponges!
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The purpose of the present research was to examine the effectiveness of life skill training on the self-esteem and communication skills of students with dyscalculia. This study is a quasi- experimental with pre-test/post-test and a control group.
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Apparently the ability to read and write and do math has a considerable overlap at the genes level. We link to a study about it, here a quote:
Understanding the etiology (causes or origins) of complex cognitive characteristics like numeracy and literacy ability is key to assisting children with achieving their potential and gaining knowledge of population variation in cognitive abilities and the substantial genetic components shared with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia.
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One of the ways people would go about finding out if a child has dyscalculia, is by looking at the IQ and then confirming that math skills are much lower as would be predicted by the general IQ. This discrepancy would indicate the presence of dyscalculia. Now however a study done earlier this year, also looked at children with lower or average IQ and found that number sense can be equally affected, independent from the IQ.
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Some interesting recent research shows that even without formal education, people are quite adept at estimating chances. Not when talking about plane crashes or the eventuality of winning the lottery but picking colorful chips from a jar. Read the article for some amazing results. Kids with dyscalculia will typically not have this ability so when we test them early we can prevent a lot of negativity later in school life.
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