What It’s Like to Struggle With a Little-Known Math Disability

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Five adults with dyscalculia spoke with Education Week about what it was like to struggle in K-12 schools with a disability that was largely unrecognized and how they had to learn to accept their disability and get the help they need.

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Some perspective on assessments

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The teachthought website shares a few great comments that bring some perspective on the assessments our children encounter at school every year.

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Dyscalculia 101 in small businesses

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The Earn less stress podcast, who specializes in helping small business owners, has a nice podcast about Dyscalculia and some great tips at their podcast website.

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Stability in learning disabilities

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The prevalence of learning disabilities among youth aged 6 to 17 years remained steady from 1997 to 2021, according to a research letter published online July 10 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Yanmei Li, from Guangdong Pharmaceutical University in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues estimated the prevalence of learning disabilities and its long-term trend among 188,449 U.S. children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years using data from the National Health Interview Survey (1997 to 2021).

The researchers found that 8.76 percent of children had a diagnosis of a learning disability from 1997 to 2021. There was a significant difference observed in prevalence by age (12 to 17 years, 9.78 percent; 6 to 11 years, 7.86 percent), sex (female, 6.56 percent; male, 11.00 percent), race and ethnicity (Hispanic, 7.82 percent; non-Hispanic Black, 10.03 percent; non-Hispanic White, 9.25 percent; other, 6.23 percent), family income-to-poverty ratio (<1.00, 13.46 percent; 1.00 to 1.99, 10.39 percent; 2.00 to 3.99, 8.17 percent; ≥4.00, 6.59 percent), and highest educational level of family members (less than high school, 11.62 percent; high school, 10.05 percent; college or higher, 8.04 percent). There was no significant mean annual change in prevalence from 1997-1998 (8.98 percent) to 2021 (8.31 percent), except for Hispanic youth (7.24 percent in 1997-1998 to 8.24 percent in 2021).

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New study from Turkey looks at cortical thickness, surface area and volume

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Neuroimaging studies have indicated some differences in brain structure and/or function in children with developmental dyscalculia [2-5]. In this study, we investigated the neocortical features (i.e., cortical thickness, cortical surface area and cortical volume) in dyscalculic children comparing them to their typically developing (normally achieving) peers using surface-based morphometry methods.

Conclusions:

Cortical volume reductions in the frontoparietal regions in developmental dyscalculia were replicated in our study [7-9]. Furthermore, we revealed that lower cortical volume in dyscalculia may be associated with smaller cortical surface area rather than thinner cortex. However, because we had relatively small sample size, further studies with larger sample size are necessary to confirm our findings.

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