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Education > Online Learning
Online Learning Platforms for Students with Disabilities: A Complete Comparison
...lessons without time pressure Disability match: Moderate to strong for dyscalculia (visual math models), dyslexia (text-to-speech via browser extensions),...transcripts are accurate, and the pacing is controlled by the student. For dyscalculia, the visual models are the strength. The platform assumes nothing and...
Education > K-12
Gifted Students with Disabilities: Serving Twice Exceptional Learners in K-12
...have documented giftedness in one or more areas alongside a documented disability. That disability might be a learning disability like dyslexia or dyscalculia, ADHD, autism, a physical disability, or a processing disorder. The combination isn't rare. Estimates suggest 14-17% of students in gifted programs...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
Executive Function Strategies That Work: A Parent's Guide for Students with Learning Differences
...and finished none. The frustration builds on both sides. Executive function challenges affect students across all learning differences: dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and others. These are the skills that manage how we start tasks, hold information in working memory, plan multi-step assignments, and shift...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
IEP or 504: Which Plan Does Your Child with a Learning Difference Need?
...teaching designed specifically for how their brain works. IDEA covers 13 disability categories, including specific learning disabilities like dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia. But your child doesn't qualify simply by having a diagnosis. They must meet two criteria: a covered disability exists, and it adversely...
Education > Other
Twice Exceptional Students: When Your Child Is Both Gifted and Has a Disability
...one or more areas AND a diagnosed disability that impacts learning or daily functioning. The disability can be a learning disability (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia), ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, or a physical disability. The giftedness can show up in verbal reasoning, math,...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
When ADHD Isn't Alone: Understanding Co-Occurring Anxiety, Dyslexia, and Learning Differences
...data from CHADD. The most common overlaps are anxiety disorders, affecting 30–50% of children with ADHD, and learning disabilities like dyslexia or dyscalculia, affecting 30–45%. Oppositional defiant disorder, depression, sleep disorders, and autism spectrum conditions also appear frequently alongside ADHD....
Research > Brain Science
How Executive Function Shapes Learning: What Parents Need to Know About the Brain Science Behind Reading, Math, and Organization
...irrelevant distractions, and shift between different mental tasks. When these systems develop differently or more slowly, as they do in ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other learning disabilities, the result isn't a lack of effort. It's a neurodevelopmental difference that shows up as disorganization, reading...
Education > Tutoring
Dyscalculia Tutoring: Evidence-Based Strategies for the Overlooked Math Learning Disability
...mentioned the word dyscalculia. Five to eight percent...school-age children have dyscalculia, a specific math learning...targeted intervention. Dyscalculia tutoring exists. Research-backed...what to ask for. What Dyscalculia Is. Dyscalculia is not...What Dyscalculia Is. Dyscalculia is not general math...recognition. Children with dyscalculia do not. The brain pathways...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
What is Dyscalculia?
...Disabilities: What is Dyscalculia? When it...Signs of Dyscalculia While dyslexia...to reading, dyscalculia is the learning...and numbers. Dyscalculia.org says, "Dyscalculia...Dyscalculia.org says, "Dyscalculia often only...to describe dyscalculia as being “like...in math." Dyscalculia is said to...and store. Dyscalculia can occur with...Children with dyscalculia struggle with...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
Types of Learning Disabilities
...complain of physical ailments when reading. Dyscalculia Dyscalculia is the learning disability that...physical ailments when reading. Dyscalculia Dyscalculia is the learning disability that revolves around...around arithmetic and numbers. Children with dyscalculia have difficulty telling time, counting in a...
Parenting > Self-Care
The 7000 Habits of Highly Imperfect Parents
...foremost, I have years of practical experience parenting my two special daughters (Asperger's syndrome, non-verbal learning disability, anxiety, ADHD, dyscalcula, blah, blah, blah) in a world pre-occupied with perfection. Secondly, I have been told repeatedly that I violate the rules of perfect parenting by...