Own your learning disability

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It’s not enough for schools to help students with learning differences or disabilities shore up their academic weaknesses. Students also need to learn how to communicate with others—particularly adults—about their unique needs, experts say.

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Maths anxiety hinders many pupils, say teachers

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One in five primary school teachers worries that pupils in their class could have unidentified dyscalculia, with concerns that increased maths anxiety is being passed down through generations as a “baleful family legacy”.

Around 19 per cent of primary teachers suspect that pupils in their class may have unidentified dyscalculia

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Predictors of school performance in mathematics

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Easy read watches

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See these easy read watches. People with dyscalculia have problems with reading analog time, so this would be one option to help them, or a snazzy digital watch.

College degree at 76 with dyscalculia

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At age 76, Elinor McNeel isn’t letting her learning disability hold her back from getting her college degree.

40 years after leaving college due to her struggle with math, McNeel enrolled in Penn State World Campus and found the culprit had a name — dyscalculia

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