Dyscalculia affects almost as many students as dyslexia. What can districts do?

Most districts don’t have the systems in place to screen for the learning disability related to numbers and math, CRPE said in a report.

There is currently a lack of consensus on how to define, identify and support dyscalculia and other math learning disabilities, according to CRPE’s national scan of states’ math policies and bills. While a handful of states, including North Carolina and West Virginia, refer to the learning disability in recent bills, they don’t include provisions requiring screening or diagnosis.

Some states — Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Rhode Island — have proposed or enacted mandates for universal dyscalculia screening of students within typically younger age ranges. 

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