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Trouble with Directional Sense

It’s easy to get lost if you are dyscalculic. A lack of directional sense can be a symptom of dyscalculia.

Dyscalculia and Counting Backwards

"How could anyone just know how to count backwards?”

Dyscalculia Moment | Paddle Camp

Questions involving amounts and numbers can result in unexpected answers, hesitations, or even silence from the dyscalculic.

Mommy, Am I Stupid?

The math struggles were now obvious challenges, and were impacting my daughter’s emotional well-being.

Discovery, 2020Laura JacksonNovember 16, 2020Notice

Number Facts Come and Go

With Dyscalculia, learned number facts are not accessible in the same way all the time. They disappear and reappear.

Here was my daughter, struggling, confused, lost, and overwhelmed to the point of shaking and tears rolling down her face.

Hints of Dyscalculia in Kindergarten

These symptoms could have been perceived as hints of a learning disability, but that was nowhere near my thought process.

I knew nothing about learning disabilities or what I should do next.

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