I have a 6th grade student who is having difficulties in Math. For reasons not worth elaborating on, I do not have access to last year’s school records or any testing that has been done. We are going to be using a team-teaching approach to help this child and in order for everyone to be working from the same page it would be helpful if we could decide whether to consider him dyscalculic. Does anyone have any ideas of the range of tests that would typically be used to support a diagnosis of dyscalculia?
Be sure to be on the same page about exactly what you mean by “dyscalculic.” There’s a good article in the LD In Depth section on Mathematics — it’s important to know whether the student is having difficulty managing hte abstract symbolic nature of the math, or whether there are deeper/different issues with space and quantity understanding. I believe one of the math articles describes the tests that would help figure this out.