Dyscalculia is not a lack of mathematical abilities

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Learning Disorder in Children Is Not Spiritual

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Among the many misunderstandings about learning disabilities, here is one from Ghana:

Refrain from ascribing spiritual causes to the learning difficulties of your children and seek the right remedies to address their challenges, the Executive Director of the Africa Dyslexia Organisation (ADO), Rosalin Abigail Kyere-Nartey, has appealed to parents.

She said such children may either be suffering from dyslexia or the dyscalculia which were natural learning disabilities that must be dealt with, using the right teaching techniques and approaches, and had nothing to do with spiritism or spiritualism.

“If your child cannot read, cannot write, cannot do or understand mathematics, it is not a disease, sickness or a spiritual thing. It has everything to do with his or her cognitive abilities and can be handled to get the very best out of such a child,” she emphasised.

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Trouble for Twice Exceptional

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For example, Jane is a highly gifted dyslexic student. Her school district requires cut-off scores in each category for gifted identification, which Jane does not meet. When academic achievement scores are part of this calculus, students who experience learning challenges could be easily overlooked. However, if the district created a framework in which students can “qualify” in many areas, such as curriculum, leadership, artistic ability, or creativity, rather than limiting qualification areas to core academic content areas, gifted programs are more likely to capture students like Jane.

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Snakes and ladders

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Found on twitter, a good way to work on number sense with some fun. It has prompted the manipulatives of mathbot to add a snakes and ladders option,

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Help students ask great questions

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From the teachthought blog comes this great resource with no less than 8 strategies to help students ask great questions.

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