tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246930167979528352024-03-19T02:19:27.358-07:00Dyscalculia.org BLOGDyslexia and Dyscalculia Support Services. Math Learning Disability. Specific Learning Disability in Mahematics. Diagnosis. Remediation. Therapy. Accommodations. Special Education Law. Advocacy. IEP. Causes. Treatment. Research.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-3302928387187001872024-02-01T11:43:00.000-08:002024-02-01T11:43:56.091-08:00<blockquote>
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<br /><font color="#8B0000" face="Verdana" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>DYSCALCULIA.ORG</b>: an article by Intern, Annie Shan</font></blockquote><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f46056e-7fff-bf96-6ba1-2206d5207825"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Gender Gap in STEM: a Statistical Overview</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Countless studies have debunked the notion of gender-based intelligence differences in mathematics, showing that girls are just as good as boys. Yet, the current state of affairs remains unsatisfactory, with a significant gender disparity prevailing throughout girls' STEM education and careers. The shocking statistics are hard to ignore:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2021, women comprise only 28% of the science and engineering workforce</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2020, only 25% of bachelor’s degrees in math, computer science, and engineering were earned by women</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Women are 1.5 times more likely than men to leave the STEM pipeline after taking Calculus I.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Every year, girls score around 20 points lower on SAT math than boys</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Middle school boys are over twice as likely as girls to expect a future career in STEM, and high school boys are almost 4 times as likely.</span></p></li></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gender Stereotyping as the Root Cause of Gender Divide in Math-Heavy Fields</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(<a href="https://www.dyscalculia.org/home/contact/annie-shan/stem-gender-differences" target="_blank">read full article</a>)</span></div></span><blockquote> </blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-33592997211512522942019-01-21T18:26:00.001-08:002020-03-02T05:39:31.687-08:00Special Ed Teacher Needs Help with Fractions for Confused MLD Student<blockquote bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':573,'h':195,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}">
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':69,'h':16,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}" style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':63,'h':16,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}">VISITOR</b>:</span><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5,'w':572,'h':198,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':168}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':572,'h':195,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}" style="font-size: 13px;"> <span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':572,'h':195,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">I am a retired special education teacher who has worked for over 40 years with learning disabled students. I am currently working with a student who has dyslexia and dyscalculia. She is currently in 5th grade. She has modified tests in terms of size of print, number of problems and extended time limit. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5,'w':572,'h':198,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':168}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':572,'h':195,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}" style="font-size: 13px;"><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':8,'w':572,'h':195,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':171}" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">The last concept she worked on was fractions. The very difficult part for her was comparing fractions. She was able to do this using cross multiplication and finding a common denominator but could not master (in the short time allotted) using a number line when comparing the fractions to 1/2 and 1 or using number sense. They were not allowed to use a common denominator or cross multiplication during their test. She was very frustrated and anxious. She passed the test but is now fearful of math. The next unit is on finding the greatest common factor. She uses the list of factors method very well but also has to use prime factorization and the step method on the upcoming test. </span></span> </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':219,'w':573,'h':144,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':382}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She is the type of student that does not remember the name of the varying methods and confuses the processes of the methods when trying to come up with an answer. I do not have a problem with exposing her to each method, but is there research that I may use at her iep meeting to convince the participants that she should be allowed to use the method that works best for her in the testing situation. The New Jersey standards in 5th grade push these concepts through so quickly that she cannot master all the methods she has been exposed to. I would appreciate any information, research etc. to help support this accommodation for this very frustrated child.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':219,'w':573,'h':144,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':382}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':363,'w':149,'h':16,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':526}" style="color: darkred; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b bis_size="{'x':56,'y':363,'w':139,'h':16,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':526}">DYSCALCULIA.ORG</b>: </span><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':364,'w':564,'h':63,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':527}" style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-size: x-small;"><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':363,'w':564,'h':64,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':526}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It would be best if you could get constructive assessments to replace paper and pencil tests. A constructive assessment or project is graded on a rubric. How well does the product demonstrate an understanding of the criteria being measured?</span></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':443,'w':573,'h':64,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':606}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The product can be a Prezi presentation, an Explain Everything lesson, an e-book, a website, a traditional presentation or poster, a live performance (demonstration), a study guide, a lesson, a movie, etc. One can use traditional materials, or software, like Kidspiration, Explain Everything, Google Sites, Prezi, or MS One Note.</span><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':507,'w':571,'h':48,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':670}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The student must do this for every item they are required to know on an exam. In effect, the student must richly and successfully TEACH the concept, in order to master it, and in the process, will demonstrate mastery!</span><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':555,'w':558,'h':48,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':718}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The requirements do not change, only the <i bis_size="{'x':336,'y':555,'w':30,'h':16,'abs_x':557,'abs_y':718}">way </i>in which the student proves mastery. The student creates the product as homework or a combination of classwork and homework. </span><span bis_size="{'x':133,'y':588,'w':3,'h':15,'abs_x':354,'abs_y':751}" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':861,'w':442,'h':16,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':1024}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Constructive assessments are also called "<a bis_size="{'x':334,'y':861,'w':148,'h':16,'abs_x':555,'abs_y':1024}" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/assessing-student-learning/alternatives-traditional-exams-papers/&source=gmail&ust=1548208717663000&usg=AFQjCNHy6Is1sDSEDAasszsQ5fd8FFJbIA" href="https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/assessing-student-learning/alternatives-traditional-exams-papers/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">authentic assessments</a>." </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':620,'w':572,'h':112,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':783}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Clearly, the goal here, is personal independence, not dependence on accommodations, like guidance, assistance, and extra time. The student will still use tools, like multiplication charts, just-in-time references (ex. <a bis_size="{'x':325,'y':652,'w':97,'h':16,'abs_x':546,'abs_y':815}" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mathisfun.com&source=gmail&ust=1548208717663000&usg=AFQjCNEEkfFcsDXZ4_AHzV41tONI1UyYeA" href="http://mathisfun.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">mathisfun.com</a>), but these are employed during the creative process.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':620,'w':572,'h':112,'abs_x':277,'abs_y':783}" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The student has not <i>mastered</i> the concept until they can demonstrate their product successfully INDEPENDENTLY (without guidance or assistance). They can demonstrate how they use references, tools, and resources in the process. </span><span bis_size="{'x':140,'y':717,'w':3,'h':15,'abs_x':361,'abs_y':880}" style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com685tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-89936578322338353612018-08-03T09:52:00.003-07:002018-08-03T09:52:30.702-07:00Rehab Professional Needs Dyscalculia Pointers<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">I’m a rehabilitation professional working with a client who has been tutoring k-3 children who have dyscalculia through a school program that is grant-funded.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has been successful and wants to continue this work, focusing on dyscalculia without being restricted in other LD areas, like language arts, by school administrators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have any suggestions? He’s in the midst of preparation for a teaching license.</span></div>
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<span style="color: darkred; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>DYSCALCULIA.ORG</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Does this teacher-to-be need a workshop or online training in dyscalculia teaching tools and strategies? We can set him up and provide a certificate of competency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you think administrators will pressure him to address language arts, as well as math, he can advocate for his service by teaching the language of mathematics during his math lessons. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This method exponentially increases language acumen and math performance, simultaneously, and is highly effective with students with learning challenges, like dyslexia and dyscalculia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Please see: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/math-ld-remediation&source=gmail&ust=1533401045712000&usg=AFQjCNEY-lKUM-UJWV7laZ5W0D3eoD_Zfw" href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/math-ld-remediation" target="_blank">http://www.dyscalculia.<wbr></wbr>org/dyscalculia/math-ld-<wbr></wbr>remediation</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com311tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-83853690452015264812018-08-03T09:47:00.000-07:002018-08-03T09:47:03.215-07:00Certified Teacher Needs Dyscalculia Teaching Resources<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am writing in the hopes of finding resources and assistance in the area of your dyscalculia. All three of my daughters have been diagnosed with LD in math. I'm not surprised because I also suffer from what I call "math phobia". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am also a certified teacher, fortunately not in math. However, I have found it to be impossible to find learning resources, professional development, and tutoring services that provide assistance to students diagnosed with dyscalculia in the US. I can't ask the school district to provide services if I don't know which strategies or resources to ask for. Our math and special education teachers aren't trained in how to teach a student with a learning disorder in math. Surely, there has to be resources out there. Could you please help me?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">I just tought I can share with you my story about discalculia life. I am 27 years-old. I have strong discalculia, but in my case, it's also somehow connected with a disability to play from sheet of music, even though I learned music all my life. I found that whenever I try to learn something, like a piano song, every day I sit to it like I never saw it before. There are exercises in the book about music. I have played every week for 10 years and everytime, I have difficulty understanding it. It's so complicated for my brain. Every note has its own length, rhythm and pitch, and also belongs to some key, and one should also remember key signature. My biggest passion is music, so I have to do it, but I get tired very fast, and I usually become exhausted from thinking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, I compose music- it looks good, but suddenly I even forget what I am doing, and what key I am in, and it seems there is no memory to store something before I need it again. Does it make any sense? The worst thing, is that my memory and music/math disability is somehow connected to depression and even paranoid states. I take some pills for depression, but am a happy person! I become depressed and paranoid only when I work with numbers, memory, and notes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've had this since a young age - it was hard to learn clocks and I was unable to solve basic mathematical questions. But in other disciplines, that don't include math, it seems I am highly intelligent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think I have ADHD - it is verry hard for me to spend time with lots of details alone. I try to simplify everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you have any basic help so that I can learn to function better? I found out that the more impulses and more toughts I have, the more depressed I feel. What is interesting, is that I get (for example at work) exhausted very fast. At the end of the workday, I have difficulty even remembering a sentence in a book I've just read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I am with animals or in nature and then go read a book, I can remember more, but my memory gets amazingly short, once I am solving any problem, and it cannot accept any information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for any tips that will help. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Could I have one more question? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Could it be somehow connected to low memory difficult, that I have those paranoid states or is it something different? </span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">For example, today I was analyzing some music in my usual process. I sit alone at the piano and table. I play few chords of a composition, then I see what harmonic secret is hidden behind those progressions and all of those little details I write down on paper under the notes. I use many colors to make a system. I am usually very satisfied because I am becoming really good in recognizing all the chords and their meanings, BUT, then I begin to feel very hot and my leg starts to move up and down like I am nervous, then I loose my concentration ability, and suddenly I start to repeat and repeat those two or even just one chord and I am like, "Well, I have this chord... and? What do I want to do with it? Aha!"</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I realize, I want to analyze it, "Well, lets get to it again!" (I get to it again and the whole thing repeats but now a bit faster ) - I forgot what connection this one chord has with other chords and couldn't understund why I am suddenly so slow if I was working very fast few minutes ago. If I didnt stop in this moment (what usually happens because I become very compulsive and passionate about analyzing music (I almost feel like I am decrypting some code of other composer's brain). Then, I become even more nervous and I become sweaty and what's the worst, I loose contact with reality. For example someone calls me to have dinner, and I come to eat, but my brain is in totally dreamy state - I couldn't answer questions very well and this makes me very lonely because it's hard for me to communicate socially, because if I don't work with music, I feel like I am bored or a useless human. </span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This happens to me even if I read a book and I get very interested. I lose contact with reality, then I forget the sentence that I just read and must read it again and again because I keep forgetting it. Even when writing this letter, I got so "IN IT" that I must take some time to relax before doing something normal. - Somehow, it seems I get very anxious about doing stuff once I am passionate or interested about it. </span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you for any info - I am like a fairytale figure trying to understand who the hell I am, and what is happening to me, so I could learn to live more relaxed and do my work :).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>DYSCALCULIA.ORG</b>: Math working memory is your primary problem. This working memory deficit may be visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. You need strategies to mitigate insufficient working memory, especially when doing music or math tasks. Chunk things into small units. Take the time to deeply understand the task, so that you are not reliant on memory of procedures, but can logically reason the steps and sequences needed to execute a task. Achieve automaticity in note reading and auditory recognition, to take away the huge demand for recall, which when added to demands for sequential memory and visual-spatial and auditory memory, can overwhelm you and result in a state of mental static, where nothing is processed effectively. <span style="background-color: white;">It would help me to know what country you are writing from and what your primary language is, and if you are using an app to translate your message into English.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think that you are experiencing mild anxiety attacks or episodes whenever your working memory is maxed out by the tasks at hand. When this happens, you are still aware and are taking in information and are doing things, but your brain is not fully processing the information and you are not fully "engaged," so your work and time spent is not as effective as it should be, and your focus and sustained attention is inefficient. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It takes a lot of executive function to compose and even play music. Working memory deficit is a strong factor in effective executive function and focus and sustained attention. Employ strategies at all times in order to PREVENT getting to that overwhelmed point. Take frequent breaks with physical activity. Color-coding is an excellent strategy! Reasoning and talking aloud about what you're doing helps, too. Make lists and refer to them often. Dictate your thoughts into a voice recorder on your computer or phone and turn on automatic voice to text so you can see your ideas, too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana;">VISITOR</b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">I am joining the British Military as a potential Officer, Reserve.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">At the same time I am applying for many professional roles such as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">investment banking, management consultancy, law and civil service.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">The roles I am applying for include numerical and other online tests</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">which are posing me difficulty even though I have a PhD in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">biochemistry </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">and have a self-tested IQ of 133.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">I was wondering whether you were able to give any advice as to whether</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">I would be disallowed from entering the British Military or whether it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">would </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">be hard for me (or come with stigma) - as I believe that I do have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">some sort of mild impediment and that extra time or mark adjustments</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">would allow me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">to get past the online testing stages where I can shine at the job interviews.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">Also, do you have a UK counterpart that you might be able to direct me to?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as extra time or academic adjustments, you'll need comprehensive assessment and thorough documentation of disability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are several dyscalculia experts and research centers in the UK. (We also can assess you for dyscalculia.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana;">VISITOR</b><span style="font-family: "verdana";">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am mom to a beautiful, artistic 12 year old daughter. She was born at 28 weeks, although her size (1lb 15oz) indicated she was closer to 26 weeks. No major complications occured while we spent two months visiting our preemie baby in the NICU. Her eyes and all other body parts are perfectly formed. Our daughter has always experienced anxiety with the unknown, stress, and math. Learning disabilities became quickly apparent by 1st grade.</span></span></span> </blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com206tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-30015603329196389632017-04-05T19:45:00.001-07:002020-03-02T05:48:08.852-08:00Thank You for the Consultation!<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you so much for your consultation! My daughter and I were in separate rooms during the phone call, so I couldn't see how she was reacting. She was so relieved and excited when she got off the phone with you. We both agreed that we wished you lived here.</span><img alt="😀" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f600" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f600" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">. You have a way of making her feel comfortable, and not stupid, but motivated at the same time. </span></span> </blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com148tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-77639362208804018432017-02-19T18:12:00.001-08:002020-03-02T05:46:06.558-08:00Math Limits Me - But I Can Write!<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A very bright and creative older adult, I just needed to be reassured that I am not yet crazy. I have lived with extremely limited mathematical ability all of my life. It affects me in many ways - it's hard to hold a job, keep from getting cheated, remember birthdays and to pay bills.</span></span> </blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com166tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-82305179031683371782017-01-12T09:33:00.000-08:002017-01-12T09:33:02.140-08:00Dyscalculia Dx Rejected by College<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am working with a young man with severe dyscalculia—who is having problems getting into a 4 yr college. His psychiatrist has diagnosed him with a mathematics disorder—but the school is not accepting it.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com570tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-20237926552367559342016-11-15T12:17:00.003-08:002016-11-15T12:20:25.927-08:00Special Ed Teacher Needs Math Help<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I just found this site and I am a bit overwhelmed. I have been teaching students who have been identified as having learning disabilities for about 30 years. Some I have real questions about. I do know they are behind their peers academically. Most have “gaps” in their learning that I have tried to help them with by using different methods or just having them in smaller groups. Math is an area that I would like to learn more about to help my students, I am currently working with third and fourth grade students who have difficulty with all basic operations especially regrouping in addition and subtraction. Multiplication is very difficult for my fourth graders. I have tried different strategies, but I feel I need something else. Can you recommend something that I can use or something I can read? One student has me really confused when she is doing multiplication.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Math exams & practice: single digits, simplify, use handbook, reference, examples, or take-home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. Extended time (3x) for math learning, assignments, assessments, courses, "independent study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7. Supervised 1:1 exams for monitoring of unconscious dyscalculic/retrieval/<wbr></wbr>procedural errors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8. Halve number of practice problems and exam items; simplify, single digits, test only practiced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10. Color-code to organize; isolate digits/rows/columns; use graph paper to minimize errors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">12. Pass-fail grading for math classes, to prevent disability's impact on GPA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">13. Change grades in failed math courses to FAIL and recalculate GPA to mitigate impact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">14. Assistive Technology for math & writing tasks: [talking] calculator apps, programmed instruction, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">visualization and organization apps, drag & drop apps, digital texts, speech-to-text tools, proof reader.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com364tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-18187642863699539062016-09-23T20:19:00.000-07:002016-09-23T20:19:07.353-07:00Math Disability, No GED, No Degree<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;">Yes. I am 42 and I still do not have my GED. I have tried and failed. I was in Special Education classes in Junior High School. I always had a very difficult time with Arithmetic and Mathematics. I was told that I simply had a mental block. I've been trying to study for my GED again and I finally decided to search the internet for information about my extreme inability to comprehend mathematics. I found this website. I took community college courses in psychology. I scored higher on some of the exams than anyone else in the classes. I was told by my psychology professor that I could certainly acquire a Masters Degree in psychology but since there was no way I could complete the advanced mathematics classes and did not have a GED I could not continue progressing in the class. I watched the video entitled "Dyscalculia Signs & Research" and the people there with dyscalculia were doing exactly what I have always done. Counting the dots one by one. Adding on their fingers like me. Making all sorts of marks and equations on the scratch paper and counting out the numbers to do multiplication problems. I also do not have any memory for mathematics and always end up forgetting how to work through basic multiplication and division problems. I cannot visualize the numbers and the problems at all. I can't comprehend even basic fractions. I am certain that I have dyscalculia. I am here to fill out the checklists and to begin seeking ways to be tested so that the system can't railroad me anymore with mathematics that I am not competent at understanding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: Verdana;">VISITOR</b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;">After doing some research I think I could potentially have a form of dyscalculia. While I am not 100% sure by any means I wanted to contact someone to see what's going on with me.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;">To start I have always been fairly decent at math, it does take me a little bit to process the information but I am actually able to get by and don't have too much of an issue solving complex problems (I even took a test to see if I have dyscalculia and got a 100% correct on it in a short amount of time without even struggling).</span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Y</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our logic, reasoning, directional sense, sequential memory, memory for math facts and procedures, and even your working memory must all be sufficient to perform complex quantitative tasks. Your problem seems to be isolated to digit processing. So while you eyes see fine (perception), the order of the digits is not entirely fixed. The visual impression of the numbers is somewhat weak or ambiguous, and during processing, the brain recalls them inaccurately when it comes to taking action on them, like during thinking about, reading, speaking or writing the numbers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing that you are prone to this processing glitch, you must triple check place value by isolating numbers and thinking, "8 pennies, 6 dimes, 7 dollars, a fifty, and two hundreds...less than 300." Then look at the whole number and say it, "two hundred fifty seven and 68 cents." Isolate the digits and compare again after you have written or entered them. In other words, because the brain receives WEAK impressions of numbers, you need to DELIBERATELY pay attention to the order of the numbers and articulate some judgement or opinion about them. Triple check, and assure accuracy. When there is no room for error (like when something is being sent to the printer), ask someone to check your numbers for accuracy to avoid costly mistakes. And just admit it, sometimes you unconsciously make digit sequencing errors, like some other people make spelling errors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a very common characteristic of dyscalculia, which contributes greatly to inaccuracies and frustration. You are lucky that you don't have all of the other conditions that further frustrate number processing and performance.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com386tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-41687745362691687062016-09-19T09:23:00.004-07:002016-09-19T09:23:29.447-07:00Dyscalculia in Finland<blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com433tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-51313248981912260582016-09-19T08:36:00.002-07:002016-09-19T08:36:37.066-07:00Dyscalculia at 48 and in college?<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">I am close to tears, yet very excited! I am a 48 year old woman, who can not do math. I have dealt with this my entire life, and always thought that there was something so very wrong with me! I think I may have dyscalculia. I am attending college right now working on getting my Bachelors degree in General/Special Education, and had my first math course in June, which I was unable to complete after the first 2 weeks, and had to withdraw due to complete confusion, and anxiety. I need help. I never pursued my dream of a college degree, because I knew that I could not pas the math and science. Please help me if you can I need to know what to do, and I just happened upon the website when I was doing some reading on LD and I did not even know what dyscalculia was! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.8px;">Any information/direction you can give me would be so greatly appreciated.</span></span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com94tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-2407333192489698212016-09-13T08:44:00.000-07:002016-09-13T08:45:10.803-07:00No Understanding of Time or Numbers, but As & Bs in Other Subjects. <blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-size: 12.8px;">I am the parent of a 12 year old who enjoys reading, but has a lot of difficulty with retaining and recalling basic math facts. She is able to understand math concepts, such as how to find the square root of a number, but spends an extraordinary amount of time trying to recall answers to even simple math facts, such as 5x5 or 2+8.</span></span> </span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com549tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-35953142549212524662016-09-02T11:36:00.003-07:002016-09-02T11:37:14.495-07:00Computer Programming with Dyscalculia<blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com86tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-33568616208078554842016-06-29T07:57:00.002-07:002016-09-19T13:56:17.272-07:00Elevate is an app that helps with my dyscalculia.<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"> I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">am writing to let you know about an app that I am finding revolutionary. It's called Elevate, and it had simple games like "measurement" in which you double 1 1/8, but the great part is you enter it in terms of circles and fractions of a circle. In a another game called "estimate" you do mental addition to approximate the sums of several values like 8.99, 4.19, and 5.60. In this game you scroll along a number line to enter your answer. I find the motor and visual aspects of these games very helpful for the development of number sense and find myself making fewer arithmetic mistakes in math class. I've also used Danica McKeller's math books with a great deal of success. She uses a great deal of metaphor, visualization, and verbal rather than symbolic representation. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com127tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1324693016797952835.post-32269692074764573522016-06-27T07:28:00.002-07:002016-06-27T07:33:10.179-07:00In Medical School with Dyscalculia<blockquote>
<span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;">VISITOR</b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;">: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #222222;">I have always struggled with math and physics for as long as I can remember. I was able to cope with it until year 4 and afterwards I was repeatedly bottom of my class for those subjects although I was always towards the top in almost all other subjects. My key observations are, I can never remember the multiplication tables no matter how hard I try even though I have a great memory for other things ( I am now in medical school and have good memory for other things such as anatomy, embryology etc). I also struggle with checking the balance after shopping or splitting bills with friends. I have a physics exam coming up in university ( considered one of the easier modules in medical school, but it is my personal toughest) and I noticed over the course of doing about 90 sums - I jumble up numbers ( 512 as 521), forget about decimals, forget about adding 0's, jumble symbols etc. I also forget what the question is asking during the course of doing the sum and have to go back to it multiple times. Some questions, i understand how to do, but have a hard time explaining in paper. In general I also have a hard time understanding and remembering key concepts in math and physics. My symptoms are much worse when I am tired or nervous but are present even on good days. </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #222222;">I was repeatedly told by teachers and parents that my problems were simply related to carelessness or nervousness. I came to the realisation that my problem might be more deep rooted than that and I would like some guidance as to how I can manage my problems because I have a compulsory physics module coming up which I need to pass in order to get my degree. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: darkred; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;">DYSCALCULIA.ORG: </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can start by reading this advice on managing dyscalculia, conquoring it, and remediating it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Fixing Dyscalculia:</b> </span><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/manage-it" style="color: #0089c9;">Manage It</a><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> | </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/conquer-it" style="color: #0089c9;">Conquer It</a><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> | </span><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/math-ld-remediation" style="color: #0089c9;">Remediation</a><span style="color: #005596; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/accessibility" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Accessing Math</a> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/accessibility/math-appreciation" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Appreciating Math</a> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/math-tools" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Best Math Tools</a> And should you seek special accommodations in college in order to pass the courses requiring quantitative reasoning, you should study these resources (<i>the advice is based on college in the USA</i>): </span><b style="color: #005596;">College & Dyscalculia: </b><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/college-dyscalculia" style="color: #0089c9;">College & Dyscalculia</a><span style="color: #005596; 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<span style="color: #005500; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 13px;"><b>VISITOR</b>:</span><span style="color: #005500; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I Am someone with math difficulties. I am also an adult who was late diagnosed ADHD. Currently, I am being treated for my ADHD with medication and cbt. Math & numbers have always been a 'dread' to me. My dad used to conclude that 'math just wasn't my strong suit.' I agreed but have never understood why until hearing about math LD. To this day, if it involves numbers, I feel a familiar 'heaviness' come over me. I just check out. I struggled terribly with math all through school but managed to get through (but not without failing and having to retake some classes). I did play a musical instrument but preferred to play by ear because reading music didn't make sense. I don't do well with reading and following directions. It's often too much to take in & takes to long to process and so I prefer to 'wing it'. If I have to use a ruler to measure anything, I opt to 'eyeball' it or I struggle through the task or I ask my husband to do it. Generally speaking, if something involves numbers (finances, measuring, helping my daughter with math, etc)...I run the other way. It has become a way of life for me now and I am interested in knowing more in relation to my ADHD.</span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(1) Those with dyscalculia usually spoke early and very well as young children and continue to speak well. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">People with dyscalculia make errors that they are NOT even aware of. They may copy numbers wrong. They may read numbers wrong. They may say numbers other than the numbers they intend to say. They may see one number but think about another number. They occasionally forget what they are doing in the middle of working a math problem. They occasionally lose track when counting things. They get confused by all of the different directions you have to go in when doing arithmetic. They have a hard time following physical sequences. They have a hard time remembering sequences, directions, maps, schedules, and times. It may be hard to read an analog (face) clock reliably. It is hard to keep track of time and they have a poor sense of how much time is required for something and how much time has gone by. They have a hard time handling money because they lose track when counting, can't do addition and subtraction in their heads, and can't think about numbers when under pressure. They have visual-spatial difficulties that make certain tasks hard. They may avoid sports that require a lot of coordination and processing of rapidly changing stimuli, like team sports. Sports that don't require so much complex and rapid visual processing would be track, cross country, and swimming. They cannot process visual-spatial information that occurs quickly. When watching sporting events, they may ask frequently, "What just happened?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They don't necessarily learn better by touching things because touch is a weaker pathway. They may have a hard time executing tasks without looking, like plugging something in without looking. They have a hard time visually comparing things and seeing the differences between similar objects. They think more slowly and carefully about visual stimuli. They misremember numbers frequently, whether it is easy addition and multiplication facts, or dates or times, and even birthdays of special people. They are embarrassed by these mistakes and try to avoid making them in public. Since it is socially acceptable to be smart but bad at math, they may admit, "I'm very smart, but I can't do math. That's okay. I can use a calculator." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Those with dyscalculia can fool their teachers and friends by developing clever ways to avoid math and calculating. They want a reputation for being smart, and do not want to admit that math makes them feel stupid. All their lives they have been told to be more careful and to pay attention to detail more and to study and try harder in math. They believe that they can overcome their math difficulties by trying harder and studying longer, but these usual tactics do not produce the expected results. This makes them frustrated and angry. After awhile, they may become overwhelmed by failure and frustration, and may cry when faced with math tasks. They may avoid math because it makes them feel inadequate and distressed. When they cannot avoid it, they will feel anxious and stressed, which will make them even less able to think mathematically. They will describe this as: a "mental block," or "drawing a blank," or "blacking out," or "it's like I've never seen this stuff before in my life!" Teachers may call this "math anxiety," but it is important to know that the "math anxiety," does not come first. Math anxiety is NOT the cause of math difficulties. Math anxiety RESULTS from the brain's inability to process quantitative and visual-spatial information reliably and effectively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">See these links:<span style="color: #005596;"> </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/manage-it" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Manage It</a><span style="color: #005596;"> | </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/conquer-it" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Conquer It</a><span style="color: #005596;"> | </span><span style="color: #005596;"> </span><a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia/math-ld-remediation" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Remediation</a><span style="color: #005596;"> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/accessibility" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Accessing Math</a> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/accessibility/math-appreciation" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Appreciating Math</a> | <a href="http://www.dyscalculia.org/math-tools" style="color: rgb(0, 137, 201) !important;">Best Math Tools</a></span></span></div>
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