What is Dyscalculia?

As an educational professional, I encounter students with varying degrees of strengths and challenges. Much of my practice is helping students with some type of language processing issue or behavioral problems that make it difficult for them to access their education on their own. However, as I have been exposed to more and more students, I have noticed a hard turn to the "left" when encountering students with Dyscalculia.

Dyscalculia - is the "math version" of dyslexia. In dyslexia -students have a difficult time making sense of letters and words but in dyscalculia - students become confused with math symbols. As a fairly "left-brain" minded individual, this concept of having a math disability has always deeply concerned me - and saddens me at the same time.

Take for example a student that is at the middle school level. Some grade appropriate concepts that the student should master by this stage of the game would be multiplication, addition, subtraction and division. Hopefully this same student would be able to think through and solve problems that require multiple steps such as "What is 5 times 8 then divided by 2?". These problems, when presented to students who may have dyscalculia could prove to be very overwhelming as they cannot understand the concepts of dividing and multiplying. After working with the student, I found that there may be a disability that has been overlooked in his psychological testing and additional interventions need to be put into place to help him with mathematical concepts.








 Wikipedia's Link on Dyscalculia

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