How to Know if a Child Has Dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia is a term that covers a broad range of lifelong learning disabilities in math. Math disabilities are varied, so it’s often difficult to pinpoint specific problem areas. Since there are so many components and skills involved with mathematical thinking, a disability affects each child’s development in different ways. If you’re worried about your child, use these steps to try to identify any potential math learning disability.

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Time processing in dyscalculia

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To test whether atypical number development may affect other types of quantity processing, we investigated temporal discrimination in adults with developmental dyscalculia (DD). This also allowed us to test whether (1) number and time may be sub-served by a common quantity system or decision mechanisms –in which case they may both be impaired, or (2) whether number and time are distinct –and therefore they may dissociate. Participants judged which of two successively presented horizontal lines was longer in duration, the first line being preceded by either a small or a large number prime (‘1’ or ‘9’) or by a neutral symbol (‘#’), or in third task decide which of two Arabic numbers (either ‘1’, ‘5’, ’9’) lasted longer.

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What is Dyscalculia? (video)

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Jane Emerson provides an introduction into the less well known condition of dyscalculia. She considers the question ‘What is dyscalculia?’

 

About the speaker: Jane Emerson, the founder of Emerson House, is a speech and language therapist with more than 25 years’ experience of working with children. She is an expert in dyslexia and dyscalculia.

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