Let’s explore specific teaching strategies that are successful for dyscalculic students.

How do you know if a potential tutor is adequately trained to help your child with dyscalculia or a math learning disability? Use this Tutor Inquiry to help.

Here are 5 common, and inaccurate, assumptions parents can make about their dyscalculic children.

My oldest daughter is graduating from high school, and our family is in the middle of ceremonies, award nights, and celebrations. 

Teaching math class for my dyscalculic daughter was not something I thought possible, especially through the middle school years.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through three important steps in supporting a student with a specific learning disability in math, or dyscalculia.

Learn 3 tips to make writing that teacher email simpler.

Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK, and my favorite dyscalculia researcher, scientist, and author.

A new audio resource on math education for dyscalculia.

We need the practical support and help that a caring community can offer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can we better understand the experience of being dyscalculic?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

Driving is one of those every-day tasks that is more complicated and stressful for dyscalculic individuals.

We hear a lot about the importance of playing games to develop math comprehension. But I want to talk about some important considerations if your child is dyscalculic.

Let’s talk about how to look deeper at issues that a child may be having in math class, such as a struggle to understand fractions. My daughter did not have many of the pre-skills required to learn fractions.

It felt like my daughter was always late getting out the door on time. I constantly felt frustrated by this until I realized WHY she was having trouble.

I get asked a lot about calculators and having a math learning disability / dyscalculia and I have a few thoughts that I want to share with you about dyscalculia and calculators.

A surprisingly simple and powerful step you can take to clear away the confusion that comes with having a dyscalculic child.

Where is all the information on dyscalculia? Why doesn’t it seem anyone knows anything?

Class presentation on dyscalculia, written and presented by an 8th grade student.

Do you hate math? Do numbers, and calculations, and math class, stress you out so much?

Dyscalculia is a learning disability. It is often diagnosed as quote "a specific learning disability with an impairment in math." But it impacts more than math.

I ask how she found out she was dyscalculic. She responded, “You mean, how did I find out I wasn’t stupid?”

"What is at the core of dyscalculia? What is the central issue with math learning disabilities?"

I wasn’t sure how we were going to successfully navigate high school algebra this year.

Help with what to say during holiday gatherings.

During the spring of my daughter’s 8th grade year, I began looking into the options for high school. I was curious about how my daughter would navigate high school with a little-known learning disability, dyscalculia.

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

My dyscalculic daughter recently created a thoughtul art piece about the hardships of dyscalculia.

A fun discussion with Dr. Schreuder (founder of Dyscalculia Services) on dyscalculia advocacy and support.

“How can I help students memorize their multiplication tables?” This is a common question from parents and teachers regarding dyscalculic students.

“My child has special education math in school, why aren’t they progressing as we had hoped?”​

There are aspects of school – outside of math class – that are difficult for dyscalculic learners. The next one I want to discuss is History.

Commonly used formats for class schedules are problematic for dyscalculics. With just a few simple modifications, the schedule can be more dyscalculic-friendly.

Having dyscalculia did not mean that our daughter could not also love science.

I laughed, assuming she was exaggerating the time to tease us. It obviously hadn’t been 15 minutes since we separated.

We had to decide, do we continue teaching her math at home with dyscalculia-specific materials, or do we start this online tutoring with dyscalculia-trained tutors?

This story conveys the urgency that is required for our society, and in this case the medical community, in recognizing and growing an awareness of the symptoms and impact of dyscalculia.

When we first discovered our daughter’s dyscalculia, I began searching all over the internet and library for the program or curriculum we needed.

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

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

School for your child doesn’t have to look the same way as it does for the majority.

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

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

I call it a Dyscalculia Moment. It’s a moment when Dyscalculia impacts my daughter’s ordinary life experiences.

For the parent who is feeling discouraged and overwhelmed about their child’s learning disability:

“If we homeschool her, then she won’t make friends and she will lose her social skills.”

This is a part three on a blog series about evaluations. I want to give you a few ideas on ways you may be able to find an evaluation at a reduced rate.

Private Evaluations - One concern that comes up immediately for many families is the financial hurdle.

One of the most helpful decisions we made early on was to have our daughter privately evaluated by an educational psychologist.

She blew up, stating loudly, “WHY IS EVERYTHING ALWAYS ABOUT HER?!”

When I try to pretend it’s not there and avoid it by staying busy, eventually it becomes overly obvious and begins to impact my life.

“I think I did pretty well, until I got stuck on 20 minus 6. I sat there for a long time and could never figure it out.”

There is an unanswered question on my computer screen that I plan to tackle: Is Dyscalculia a learning disability or a learning difference?

Our new adventure of learning math at home has been surprisingly fun.

Dyscalculia is complicated enough as it is, without also having a name that is difficult to pronounce!

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.

One area impacted by Dyscalculia is her ability to memorize and reliably remember important number sequences.

A learning disability in math? I had never heard of such a thing.

That flash-back gave me a new perspective, and I could see just how far we had come from those difficult days.