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What does your brain with dyscalculia do outside experiments?

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This is a nice piece of research that will need some more follow up. In research, participants in a study are often placed in an environment that eliminates all outside distractions. This is how they have measured the brain activity in children with dyscalculia. Now researchers are curious about what other situations trigger that part of the brain in regular life. Well it turns out, but needs lots of confirmation, that the pieces of the brain that are affected with dyscalculia also get triggered when people with dyscalculia refer in a conversation to an object with a numerical content.

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Counting on your fingers may prevent Dyscalculia

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Research has confirmed something we all may have thought. Counting on your fingers is good for your understanding of math and the number-line. Future research needs to confirm if it also helps to avoid Dyscalculia by programming the brain in the  right way.

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Dyscalculia it is a brain changer

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New research clearly shows the different neural development of children with Dyscalculia in pre-teen and teenage years. Visible with MRI Dyscalculia causes, or is caused by a different development of the brain.

This does not mean that we need to scan the brains of all school age children but it helps us realize the causes of Dyscalculia. Still screening at a young age and subsequent testing with intervention by trained specialists seems to be the best approach.

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Careful with the Dyscalculia label

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A study from Sweden has shown that dyscalculia can be a combination of various conditions and causes. The advice from the researcher is to be careful to label the kids too early but to ensure you get the right diagnoses for the condition. In their own words:

“As far as I’m concerned, we should be cautious about characterizing kids during the first years of school. We shouldn’t stamp kids with a label unnecessarily. Still, we do need to be attentive to the fact that some do have special needs,”

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