Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Rhino and Pukka Pad make coloured lined paper! Great for #dyscalculia and #dyslexia, but also for #ADHD and other memory/cognitive/executive functioning disabilities!
Have you tried it? Does it help you or your student?
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
From Australia comes the news that they have now implemented a new mandate on how to identify and work with students who are both gifted and have a learning disability, the so-called 2e students.
The traditional way of identifying gifted students was to look at their achievement, but this overlooked students with hidden potential.
Dr Townend said twice-exceptional students need both learning support and enrichment or extension to reach their potential, and supporting the disability in the classroom was essential to level the playing field.
“It’s like giving a wheelchair to a child who cannot walk or glasses to a child who needs glasses,” she said.
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
People with learning disabilities have often dificultiy to know what is left or right. In our link for today you’ll find a solution by someone, that may be a bit intense for you, but is sure to solve the problem once and for always.
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Grandfather Tony Campbell, has taken his 20-year-old maths toolkit, which has helped special needs education professionals nationwide, and adapted it for home-schooling.
The new ‘Maths Home Schooling Kit’, which can be ordered online, contains flexible tables allowing primary school children up to Year 7 to grasp the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions.
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
The White Rose Maths (yes from the UK hence mathS) provides us with a great set of home learning videos for primary school. Wonderfully done and although not specific for Dyscalculia, certainly very helpful for your work and as a reteach of what they have done in school.
Read all about it: HERE