Dyscalculia; it’s a thing!

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Here is a lady who helps to bring some good awareness to Dyscalculia. She starts her story like this:

How many people have you heard ever say ‘oh I have number dyslexia’? I bet there are a few people. Guess what? It’s its own thing. It is called dyscalculia, I know it kind of sounds like Dracula, but trust me it’s not a vampire related learning disability. If you haven’t put a face to this learning disability yet, I have dyscalculia.

Read all about it HERE

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LearningAbledKids helping kids with Dyscalculia

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A new website has been launched with someone eager to help you figure how to help your child educationally, to figure out how meet his specific needs, and to help you create an educational synergy that will enable your child to learn successfully.  Whether you homeschool, doubt you can  homeschool, or really, really want to continue working with the school, you’ll need to make a plan for properly meeting your child’s educational needs.

They are developing a step-by-step guide for how to homeschool and/or help your child overcome learning disabilities. Thus, the site is not yet fully ready to provide you with the upcoming step-by-step guide.  However, updates are under way.

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Gender and Dyscalculia

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In a recent UK study they looked at gender differences related to Developmental Dyscalculia. The outcomes show that when you look at absolute measures there is no differences in the prevalence of DD but when you apply a Math-Reading discrepancy measure there is a gender difference.

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Dyscalculia and “number sense”

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Results from a recent study in the magazine “Cognition”,  showed that poor number activity in children with dyscalculia was reflective of their inability to perform simple numerical tasks. Refinement in numerical precision may not occur in children with dyscalculia at the same developmental pace compared to typically developing children.

Therefore, a ten-year-old child with dyscalculia would have the same numerical precision and “number sense” as a five-year-old typically developing child.

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