Dyscalculia: News from the web:
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: News from the web:
A recent study from Austria confirms what we have been describing; subitizing is difficult for children with dyscalculia.
They take longer and are less accurate than children who do not have dyscalculia.
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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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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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The magazine Trends in Neuroscience has published a special issue with articles about dyscalculia related research. The articles are not free but for a preview you can go HERE
One of the articles about interventions however is available and we link to that today.
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