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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Dyscalculia impacts far more than math class. Many everyday life tasks are difficult.
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Do you hate math? Do numbers, and calculations, and math class, stress you out so much?
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Dyscalculia is a learning disability. It is often diagnosed as quote "a specific learning disability with an impairment in math."
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I ask how she found out she was dyscalculic. She responded, “You mean, how did I find out I wasn’t stupid?”
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The math struggles were now obvious challenges, and were impacting my daughter’s emotional well-being.
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Here was my daughter, struggling, confused, lost, and overwhelmed to the point of shaking and tears rolling down her face.
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These symptoms could have been perceived as hints of a learning disability, but that was nowhere near my thought process.
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There is an unanswered question on my computer screen that I plan to tackle: Is Dyscalculia a learning disability or a learning difference?
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Dyscalculia is complicated enough as it is, without also having a name that is difficult to pronounce!
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It was eye-opening when our other daughter, who is almost three years younger, began to read the clock with ease, while our eldest daughter still couldn’t figure it out.
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I knew nothing about learning disabilities or what I should do next.
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A learning disability in math? I had never heard of such a thing.
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That flash-back gave me a new perspective, and I could see just how far we had come from those difficult days.
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