For the past 1-2 years we have been moaning at my 9 year old daughters school to get help with literacy and numeracy. We got her assessed privately and paid £140.00 for that - at least now we know she has dyslexia and dyscalculia. The only thing the school does is 3 x 20 minute sessions of literacy help. Why oh why do they not give her help with her numeracy!?? do they always tackle the literacy (english) first and then the math….??? I have been into school yet again to moan that Amy is now falling backward in simple addition and struggling a lot with multiplication. Anyway last Friday they had me in to sign a form to re-assess her for numeracy help - at last. Why oh why should we have to moan a lot? Does this happen a lot to other people ????? We get Amy help privately for 1 hr per week with a private tutor for her literacy but we cannot afford for extra help for numeracy. Help….. I am pulling my hair out here !!!!
Re: dyslexia and dyscalculia
Hi Janis,When you signed on to this website today, did you notice that there is an article about adapting math instruction for regular classrooms, that you can click on? It might be helpful to check it out. It’s quite long, so I printed it out to read more carefully later.In skimming it, I noticed that the author (Robin H. Lock) suggested LD students may need to be rewarded more for getting the right sequence of steps in solving a problem. This makes perfect sense to me, an adult with NLD. For a non-LD child, it may be appropriate to focus on the rightness or wrongness of the answer. With a child who cannot consistently get to the right answer until he or she consistently understands the proper steps, rewarding the process of thinking through and remembering each step in the right order is probably more important. Hope you can check out the article. JJ: For the past 1-2 years we have been moaning at my 9 year old
: daughters school to get help with literacy and numeracy. We got
: her assessed privately and paid £140.00 for that - at least now we
: know she has dyslexia and dyscalculia. The only thing the school
: does is 3 x 20 minute sessions of literacy help. Why oh why do
: they not give her help with her numeracy!?? do they always tackle
: the literacy (english) first and then the math….??? I have been
: into school yet again to moan that Amy is now falling backward in
: simple addition and struggling a lot with multiplication. Anyway
: last Friday they had me in to sign a form to re-assess her for
: numeracy help - at last. Why oh why should we have to moan a lot?
: Does this happen a lot to other people ????? We get Amy help
: privately for 1 hr per week with a private tutor for her literacy
: but we cannot afford for extra help for numeracy. Help….. I am
: pulling my hair out here !!!!
Re: dyslexia and dyscalculia
Many thanks to both Cindy and JJ for their comments. I have looked into lots of the comments you have made. Hopefully my daughter will now be assessed yet again but for not only Literacy but Numeracy as well. This does tend to take at least up to 4 months here in England!!Time is always the essence when you are worried like we are ??! Janis
PASSWORD>aaZe0/9aBQ.mwMy son had a hard time doing basic math facts (adition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) timed tests when he was at 4th grade, but tested at post-high school level (e.g., good at geometry and algebra) when he was at 5th grade. My point here is that some kids have great difficuties in basic math facts, AND have excellent ability in high level of math (e.g., math reasoning, math analysis). In such cases, simple accomodations such as extended time and/or allwoing the kids to use calculator may solve the difficulty in math.