Project Description

Mathematics Disability (Dyscalculia)

Mathematics Disability (Dyscalculia): Did you know that there are 3 types of Dyscalculia? Did you know that treating a math disability as a whole will not always ensure that the student’s needs are met? Just knowing that your child has a math disability is not enough to ensure that essential cognitive skills are provided so that she can overcome the disability.

How to sight it:

  • Frequent difficulties with arithmetic difficulty with everyday tasks like reading analog clocks.
  • Difficulty remembering the steps of math problems.
  •  Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook.
  •  Difficulty with multiplication-tables, and subtraction-tables, addition tables, division tables, mental arithmetic, etc.
  • Difficulty with conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time.
  • May be chronically late or early problems with differentiating between left and right inability to visualize mentally difficulty reading musical notation.

What we can do to help: At Brain Learning we believe that simply identifying skill deficits is not enough. We believe that the “why” behind the skills deficit is important for treatment considerations. As a parent you need to know the “why” behind any condition, especially math disorders.  Our evaluations use both quantitative and qualitative techniques to see how the child will respond to various treatments. Our reports will provide special recommendations and we will participate in IEP meetings to ensure the valuable information gets into the IEP so it can be implemented.