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1 - To reinforce skills while practicing with your child who has Dyscalculia at home, you can use Positive Reinforcement. If the child is doing the work, and doing good, reward their correct answers, or even their hard efforts.
2 - Another way to reinforce skills at home is implementing math problems into everyday tasks. EX: If a child asks for Ice cream, have them count the scoops. EX2: If a child wants candy, give them a lot, and take some away so they can calculate how much they had versus how much they now have.
3 - Another way to reinforce skills at home is having your child play with games that involve calculations, or things they are learning in math. Candy land, Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly, etc are all games that kids can play that can increase their math skills.

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Assistive Technology

Low

-number line help students gain sense of values of numbers and their placement within the number line.

-counting maninpulatives to visually help count out a specific number.

Med

-talking calculator to speak out each number, symbol, and operation key.

-coin-ul-ator that helps with counting money and teaching the value of coins.

High

-mathpad which is a talking arithmetic worksheet programs that helps solving different math problems.

-ipad which offers many different functions and tools such as youtube videos, games, and other engaging math activities to help acquire students focus.
https://cborgoassistivetech.weebly.com/math.html

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Accommodations in the classroom

-provide math charts

-provide extra time

-provide notes or recorded lectures

-providing graph paper

accommodations for kids with dyscalculia in the classroom - Google Search

Accommodations in the workforce

-provide a scientific or graphing calculator

-provide scratch paper

-use calendars

-use timers

-provide a flexible schedule

How Can You Manage Dyscalculia in the Workplace? - Exceptional Individuals

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There are many ways that families can help an individual with Dyscalculia. A major way is trying to make math fun. Although it may be hard for the individual to learn math, if it becomes a fun task, then they won't be stressed out learning new terms, information, etc.
There are also a lot of problems that families encounter. The
"simple" math could be the hardest for the individual with Dyscalculia.
If one of the struggles is adding, multiplying, subtracting, or dividing, then the parent can focus on those, and implement a Low-Tech Assistive Technology device, the calculator.

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Type of Assessments

Since dyscalculia can’t be lab tested , varies of test are given to check one’s math-related skills.

It can be treated within younger children since their brains aren’t fully developed. Therefore, they have time to  learn and develop certain skills.

Dyscalculia: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Accommodations for Testing

-visual aids

-manipulatives

-allow extra time on test

Some strategies include using concrete resources, color and manipulatives, and drawing the problem out.

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Challenges: making mistakes with numbers such as addition, substitution, transpositions and omission. Reversals in writing, reading, and recalling numbers.
Tips for college transitions
- Choose the right major: some dyscalculia students try to make sure they don't have as many math requirements with their major. (communication) Making a conscious choice to choose a major best suited to your needs.
-Work in a productive environment: avoid studying in bed, eliminate distractions like phones. Study somewhere comfortable, well lit, and quiet. (advocacy for needs and independence)
Visual aids: visual learning such as using drawings, color coordination, or watching videos to explain math. (problem solving)
Social Skills: Practice playing games in a low stress environment. (uno, bingo, monopoly)
Encourage student to try new  group activities that build on their strengths.

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There are many ways that families can help an individual with Dyscalculia. A major way is trying to make math fun. Although it may be hard for the individual to learn math, if it becomes a fun task, then they won't be stressed out learning new terms, information, etc.
There are also a lot of problems that families encounter. The "simple" math could be the hardest for the individual with Dyscalculia. If one of the struggles is adding, multiplying, subtracting, or dividing, then the parent can focus on those, and implement a Low-Tech Assistive Technology device, the calculator.

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Having dyscalculia with other learning difficulties is actually way more common than we thought. Around 75% of students with dyscalculia also have dyslexia, dysgraphia, or attention deficits.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/dyscalculia-and-dyslexia-reading-disabilities-offer-insights-for-math-support/2023/05#:~:text=Dyscalculia%20and%20dyslexia%20often%20share,%2C%20dysgraphia%2C%20or%20attention%20deficits.

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The most common learning/developmental disability that can be diagnosed with Dyscalculia is ADHD, reading and writing disorders, visual/spatial skills disabilities, etc.

https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd-and-math#dyscalculia

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When kids have dyscalculia, it impacts how well they learn and do math in school. But having poor number sense and other math skills can also lead to all sorts of challenges in daily life.

For example, kids with dyscalculia may have trouble with amounts, time, distance, speed, counting, mental math, and remembering numbers. Those difficulties can show up in ways you might not expect or recognize as being related to math.

Here are 10 surprising ways dyscalculia can impact kids.

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Dyscalculia can impact kids in unexpected ways. Here are 10 surprising behaviors you may see in your child with dyscalculia.

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Kindergarten:
-Difficulty counting and subitizing
- Trouble with number recognition
Early Elementary
- Trouble learning math facts
- Rely mostly on finger counting
- Hard time with math problem-solving skills.
Late Elementary-Middle School
- Difficulty with precision during math work
- Difficulty sequencing multiple steps of math problems.
-Difficulty remembering previously encountered pattens.
High School
- Trouble applying math problems to everyday life.
- Trouble with measurements
- Difficulty arriving at different approaches to the same math problems

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-Difficulty to follow math procedures
-Difficulty telling the difference between operation signs
-Difficulty understanding math concepts
-Difficulty remembering math facts

https://www.understood.org/en/articles/10-surprising-ways-dyscalculia-impacts-kids

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Some common challenges faced by learners with Dyscalculia, a learning disability that affects performance in mathematics include:

Mistakes such as number additions, substitutions, transpositions, omissions, and reversals in writing, reading, and recalling numbers.

Difficulty with abstract concepts of time and direction.

Inability to recall schedules and sequences of past or future events.

Being chronically early or late.

Inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Inability to visualize; appearing absentminded or lost in thought.

Difficulty remembering math facts, concepts, rules, formulas, sequences, and procedures.

Inconsistent mastery of math facts.

Difficulty with left and right orientation.

Difficulty following sequential procedures and directions in math steps.

Slowness in understanding math concepts in word problems.

Confusing operations signs or performing them in wrong order.

Difficulty keeping score during games.

Limited strategic planning ability.

This list is adapted from Dyscalculia.org.

For more information on Dyscalculia, consult Accommodating Math Students with Learning Disabilities.

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What are typical challenges students with math-related learning disabilities face?

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Some common challenges faced by learners with Dyscalculia, a learning disability that affects performance in mathematics include: Mistakes such as number additions, substitutions, transpositions, omissions, and reversals in writing, reading, and recalling numbers. Difficulty with abstract concepts of time and direction. Inability to recall schedules and sequences of past or

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Dyscalculia is often cause by genes and hereditary. It is associated with multiple genetic disorders such as:

Fragile X syndrome

Gerstmann's syndrome

Turners Syndrome

https://mgiep.unesco.org/article/about-dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia is likely to occur 3%-6% of the United States population in females and males

https://www.dyslexia.uk.net/specific-learning-difficulties/dyscalculia/#:~:text=How%20common%20is%20it%3F,to%20affect%20females%20as%20males.

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academic struggles:

trouble learning to count

trouble reading clocks

trouble recognizing numbers

trouble solving math problems

dyscalculia academic struggles - Google Search

behavioral struggles:

anxiety (math)

depression

low- self esteem

school phobia

dyscalculia behavioral struggles - Google Search

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A learning disorder that affects one’s ability to understand math and number related skills.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23949-dyscalculia

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Do/Can any other disabilities exist in addition to this primary diagnosis?

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What are the academic, behavioral, or functional areas of struggle based on this disability?

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Identify challenges in the following areas:
- School
- Home
- Community
- Employment (for adults)
- Relationships
- Social and Emotional

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This week, you will be working in groups based upon your chosen disability. During each class, you will be given a set of criterion to follow to construct your own research and find resources to create a disability padlet. On Friday of this week, you will be teaching another group about your disability using the padlet you have created, which will lead into our second edition of the Who Am I? Demystification poster regarding Specific Learning Disabilities.

Tasks: Conduct your own research (I have given you a head start with the resource hub) on each of the subtopics for each day. As always, based on course policy, do not copy and paste. Quote, summarize, and paraphrase. For each subtopic, you will also be required to find two resources (videos, links, websites, pdfs, etc.) to assist and teach others. Provide a brief description for each of your resources as well.

Subtopics: In each subtopic, you will need the following:
- Defining, summarizing, quoting, or paraphrasing to give an understanding of each one.
- Two resources + an explanation of each one.