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How Dyscalculia Impacts Music
How Dyscalculia Impacts Music

Last year, U2’s drummer, Larry Mullen Jr, shared about his recent dyscalculia diagnosis that impacts his playing of music.

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2025Laura JacksonMay 5, 2025
Is “Extra Time” a Helpful Accommodation?
Is “Extra Time” a Helpful Accommodation?

Extra time on tests or exams is a common accommodation, but it’s problematic for these reasons.

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2025Laura JacksonMay 1, 2025
Devastating Impact of Closing the Department of Education
Devastating Impact of Closing the Department of Education

The president’s recent order to close the Department of Education is a grave decision with tragic impact on students with learning disabilities.

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2025Laura JacksonApril 9, 2025
Explore Number-Sense With Your Child
Explore Number-Sense With Your Child

Spring is a great time for parents to plan for summer learning activities and experiences that build number-sense.

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2025Laura JacksonApril 3, 2025
Does Your Student Have the Right School Supports?
Does Your Student Have the Right School Supports?

Establishing school supports for dyscalculia is critical for students, but parents mistakenly assume the school will know what supports are needed.

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2025Laura JacksonMarch 27, 2025
Why Calendars and Planners are Confusing
Why Calendars and Planners are Confusing

Do you ever wonder why your dyscalculic student doesn't like to use a calendar or planner to organize their time?

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2025Laura JacksonMarch 10, 2025
Overwhelmed with a Learning Disability Diagnosis?
Overwhelmed with a Learning Disability Diagnosis?

It’s understandable that parents feel overwhelmed with a new learning disability diagnosis.

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2025Laura JacksonJanuary 10, 2025
The Dyscalculia Experience
The Dyscalculia Experience

How can we better understand the experience of being dyscalculic?

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2024Laura JacksonOctober 30, 2024
Favorite Resources for Dyscalculic Adults
Favorite Resources for Dyscalculic Adults

As dyscalculia-awareness grows, more adults are discovering the reason for their life-long struggles. They are dyscalculic.

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2024Laura JacksonOctober 16, 2024
Dyscalculia Impacts History Class
Dyscalculia Impacts History Class

Dyscalculic students become lost in a confusion of numbers, dates, measurements, sequencing.

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2024, EducationLaura JacksonOctober 9, 2024
Following Butterworth's Dyscalculia Research
Following Butterworth's Dyscalculia Research

While in London, I had the honor of meeting Brian Butterworth, professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology and dyscalculia researcher at the University College London.

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2024Laura JacksonOctober 5, 2024
Visit with Dyscalculia Experts in England
Visit with Dyscalculia Experts in England

I traveled for the first time to the U.K. to meet (in-person) some of the dyscalculia experts I have been learning from, following, and connecting with these past several years.

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2024Laura JacksonSeptember 30, 2024
Develop Numeracy Through Exploration
Develop Numeracy Through Exploration

By "foundational number-sense," I mean we go as far back as we can to explore the early ideas of number and quantity.

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Education, 2024Laura JacksonSeptember 27, 2024
Driving with Dyscalculia - Part Two
Driving with Dyscalculia - Part Two

There is another aspect of driving that is difficult for dyscalculic, which is quick mental estimations and calculations regarding speed, space, and time.

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Parenting, Awareness, 2024Laura JacksonJanuary 16, 2024
Insight into Dyscalculia Memory Issues
Insight into Dyscalculia Memory Issues

This scientific study offered an intriguing proposal on dyscalculia memory issues.

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Education, 2023Laura JacksonOctober 16, 2023
Calendar and Planner for Dyscalculia
Calendar and Planner for Dyscalculia

This calendar and planner makes a little more sense to those with dyscalculia. Here is how it works.

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At Home, Time, 2023Laura JacksonOctober 11, 2023
Ways to Visualize Numbers
Ways to Visualize Numbers

Even though she was in sixth grade at this point, she had never understood that there was a ten in every teen number.

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Education, 2023Laura JacksonSeptember 29, 2023
What Are Dot Patterns? (Learning Tools for Dyscalculia)
What Are Dot Patterns? (Learning Tools for Dyscalculia)

If you've been following me long enough, you have heard me talk about the importance of dot patterns for dyscalculics of all ages. Well, what are dot patterns?

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Education, 2023Laura JacksonAugust 15, 2023
Simplify Summer Learning
Simplify Summer Learning

We fear our students will forget everything they learned over the school year and won’t be ready for the school year ahead. Let’s simplify our summer learning plan and expectations.

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Education, Parenting, 2023Laura JacksonJuly 7, 2023
When Math Struggles Are Mistakenly Attributed to ADHD
When Math Struggles Are Mistakenly Attributed to ADHD

These executive function issues could resemble those related to ADHD. But ADHD was not the cause of her struggles. The reason for her lack of focus, seemingly careless mistakes, and distractibility was that she was dyscalculic.

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Awareness, Discovery, Time, 2023Laura JacksonJune 29, 2023
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