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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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Using parents to tutor Dyscalculia children

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Tony Attwood from the Dyscalculia centre in the UK has been working on a way to get children with dyscalculia more support: “It was possible to give the
dyscalculic child support five days a week by using the parents, perhaps doing ten minutes work for four evenings a week, and the SENCO or the teaching assistant
who would deliver one longer session, once a week.To ensure the materials were all fully available, we then produced our approach as a parents’ volume and a teachers’ volume, thus ensuring that everyone could work from the same script.
The results have been far better than we had anticipated, and we have tried this
same approach as a method of helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder as well, again with similar success. It is a process that I would
recommend to anyone who is looking to speed up progress with dyscalculic pupils
and students.”

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Eye tracking to detect dyscalculia

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New research has confirmed that eye-tracking data can be used to discern different number processing and estimation strategies in typical developing children and children with a number processing deficit. Hence, eye-tracking data in combination with number line estimation tasks might be a valuable and promising addition to current diagnostic measures for dyscalculia.

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There is a numerosity map in your brain

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In a study in the Netherlands participants were placed in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and shown patterns of dots that varied in number over time. They would be shown one dot over and over, then two dots over and over, then three dots, and so on.

The researchers used an advanced imaging method known as high-field fMRI, which allowed them to see fine-scale details of brain activity. They analyzed the neural responses using techniques similar to those used to study the parts of the brain responsible for vision.

The posterior parietal cortex, responded to the dot patterns in an organized way: Small numbers of dots were represented in one area, whereas large numbers were represented in another, the results showed.

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