Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Prof Amanda Kirby from Do-It solutions brings us this picture with reasons why neurodivers conditions often get missed.
Don’t let it happen to you or your child, for trouble with math go to https://DyscalculiaScreener.org
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
A good trick for my dyscalculia is to look for the patterns in the numbers instead of focusing on the numbers themselves. Repetition & ratios are easier to visualise as cartoony pictures in my head, so the actual numbers become less important. #Dyscalculia
— Polititrix 🏴 (@sometimes_susan) April 22, 2021
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
We link today to a quiz about dyscalculia. Unfortunately it is a spammy site that hosts the quiz and you can not do anything without signing up for an account. So at your own risk of receiving lots of spam after signing up but it is very nice to see that they use dyscalculia to attract people to their site.
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Wonderful study that shows real differences between the brains of typical developing children and those with developmental dyscalculia.
we did find significant differences in regions-of-interest tracts which had previously been related to math ability in children. The major findings of our study were reduced white matter coherence and shorter tract lengths of the left superior longitudinal/arcuate fasciculus and left anterior thalamic radiation in the DD group. Furthermore, lower white matter coherence and shorter pathways corresponded with the lower math performance as a result of the correlation analyses. These results from regional analyses indicate that learning, memory and language-related pathways in the left hemisphere might underlie DD.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.16.440038
Read all about it: HERE
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Nice article in “The Free Press” from South-Central Minnesota. They make a play of the current political halabalu about the infrastructure and make the point that the infrastructure in education is in need of repair:
How does a color blind kindergartener function? Why isn’t the student with dyscalculia allowed time table charts for classwork and tests? Do decaying roads deserve more specialized attention than students?
Be fair. Replace standardized testing with individualized testing. Identify a child’s learning style so the tester reads to the aural learner. The tactile learner manipulates some test components. Retesting measures the individual’s growth, no comparison with others.
Read all about it: HERE
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