OK so I know that this is the Studying With Dyslexia Blog, but it is important to recognise that many young people who have dyslexia, also have co-occuring conditions too.
One of those conditions that are commonly co-occurring is Dyscalculia. I have featured articles about dyscalculia before and in follow up to the article about dyscalculia specialist Judy Hornigold ( click here) I thought that I would find a useful video that can provide tips on how to support the learning of a child with dyscalculia.
On Youtube there are a number of videos on dyscalculia ( I once posted an article about a TEDx video by Line Rothmann on dyscalculia which is really interesting – click here to view it).
When I watched Line Rothmann’s talk I was shocked at how difficult life can be when struggling with numbers. In a simplistic way, I see dyscalculia as a ‘numbers dyslexia’ but it is more than that for some people. In an extreme form, it affects aspects of doing maths (especially arithmetic) but it can affect working with time or understanding dates. The world is full of numbers and so when a child has a problem with them this is obviously going to be a problem when making one’s way through education.
So it is a good thing for teachers to be aware of dyscalculia and incorporating teaching methods that include strategies that help young people with dyscalculia. The following video shows some really straight forward tips on how to help a child to work with dyscalculia.
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