Sentences with phrase «as dyscalculia»

Dyslexia may co-exist with other special educational needs such as dyscalculia, dyspraxia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

If your child has a language - based learning difficulty — such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory processing disorder — they may have to work twice as hard to keep up with their peers in school.

Some assessments are specifically marketed as dyscalculia tests.

Learning difficulties, such as dyscalculia and dyslexia, are experienced by those who learn better using visual techniques.

Evidence suggests learning disabilities such as dyscalculia may be inherited or can be caused by problems with brain development.

Not exact matches

I have three children with ASD, AS, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, severe hypermobility, hearing impairment, visual impairment, renal and cardiac problems and one of them currently being assessed for dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

Also (sorry cheeky little extra) do you know of any learning resources for dyscalculia as we're not getting much support from school and are attempting to work on it at home.

That's about the same prevalence as dyslexia, and yet dyscalculia has received a fraction of the research attention.

The term includes such conditions as dysgraphia (writing disorder), dyslexia (reading disorder), dyscalculia (mathematics disorder) and developmental aphasia.

Research has found that dyscalculia, a learning disability focused around number and math concepts, is as common as dyslexia.

If, as he believes, dyscalculia is at heart a deficiency of basic number sense and not of memory, attention or language, as others have proposed, then nurturing the roots of number sense should help dyscalculics such as Christopher.

Researchers estimate that as much as 7 % of the population has dyscalculia, which is marked by severe difficulties in dealing with numbers despite otherwise normal (or, in Moorcraft's case, probably well above normal) intelligence.

Yet Butterworth views such results as consequences, not causes, of the poor numerical abilities that characterize dyscalculia.

Developmental dyscalculia, which occurs with approximately the same frequency as dyslexia, is in many ways a complement to dyslexia.

Researchers have tracked dyscalculia to a fold in the back of the brain known as the intraparietal sulcus, or IPS.

Recently, some researchers have proposed that in some cases, dyscalculia may arise not from a «core deficit» in the ability to compare quantities, but instead from an «access deficit» — a problem in how the brain links perceptions of quantity to number symbols such as Arabic numerals, or in how it maps numbers onto verbal or spatial processes.

Although dyscalculia, which affects about 6 percent of people, is about as common as the analogous reading disorder dyslexia, it is far less well - understood.

But Steph's struggles typify a specific math learning disability known as developmental dyscalculia.

Conditions resembling unexpected underachievement are found in medical and psychological literature beginning in the mid-19th century, where they are described variously as word blindness, dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia.

This resource from the brand new 2nd edition of The Dyscalculia Toolkit (SAGE Publications 2013) by Ronit Bird, can be used as a teaching aid in the classroom to make division practice fun.

This guidance for state and local educational agencies clarifies that students with specific learning disabilities — such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia — have unique educational needs.

Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia are often misdiagnosed as underachievement among gifted children.

Kira determines the presence of giftedness, intellectual and learning disabilities, including dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia, as well as the presence of memory, attention, and social emotional and behavioral problems impeding learning, such as ADHD, anxiety and depression.