What It Is and How It Affects Learning Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that affects an individual’s ability to understand and manipulate numbers. Often referred to as ‘math dyslexia,’ ...

You’ve heard of dyslexia, but have you heard of dyscalculia? As educators, we’re well versed in teaching literacy, yet struggle when a student claims, “I’m just not good at math.” Instead of ...

Is your child’s school district a dyslexia/literacy failure super-spreader? To answer this question, let’s begin with a definition. What Is Dyslexia? As many as 1 in 5 children have symptoms of ...

November marks National Family Literacy Month, a fitting occasion as concern about reading instruction in U.S. schools goes from a simmer to a boil. For years, parents and educators around the country ...

Spread the love“`html When discussing learning differences, dyslexia often takes center stage, but there’s another layer that significantly impacts those who have it: executive function challenges.

As many as 15 to 20 percent of students show some symptoms of dyslexia, such as inaccurate reading, poor spelling, poor writing, or mixing up similar words, according to the International Dyslexia ...

“I think that a lot more can be done to educate people about different disabilities, especially invisible disabilities.” Diagnosed with Dyscalculia, a learning disability affecting number ...

WHEN: 6 p.m. Thursday for North Idaho educators and 4:30 p.m. April 15 for Spokane-area teachers Workshops are to give input or ask questions about the learning disorder. The Spokane group INW ...

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...

Problem: Dyslexia screening results with the approved tools do not provide the blueprint for intervention. This is because these screeners cannot perform error ...

When districts embrace teaching brain words systematically and explicitly, following a spiraling curriculum much like Webster proposed, we can save legions of developmentally normal kids from reading ...