I have been to this site before and it has some good information on the subject. I did come across this there: http://www.dyscalculia.org/diagnosis.html
An online diagnosis for 550 hundred, you are kidding right?
This to me is the poorest excuse for a person to make a buck. Even given all the information Renee Newman asks for, this is all online. Where is the one on one interaction?
Are people seeing more of this trend? If I received this type of evaluation from a parent for a child I would read it and that is about it. No wonder school adminstrators roll their eyes so often.
Re: online diagnosis - your kidding
With you all the way, Sue.
My rough rule of thumb is that nine out of ten of the kids I see for reading are just lost and can catch up with a re-start on the right foot. The tenth one has some kind of real disorder, although usually way less serious than people are making it out to be.
Probably the same will apply to math disorders when I see more of them.
Re: online diagnosis - your kidding
There is studies that shows that 4-6% in america, england and sweden has dyscalculia - so it’s not that rare.
As for the online test… Yeah, it seems a little poor… Btw, you can’t even take that test anymore, the emailadress does not exist. But, I have nothing but love to the woman behind, she made my life SO much better just by making dyscalculia.org
Nope, I haven’t seen much of it. It’s interesting that she highlights in *red* that the diagnosis must be made by a team…. yet in black ink, the dx is made.
It is rather a tribute to the powers of desktop publishing :) Hey, send me our information, give me a week, and I’ll put it on good stationery …. it’s interesting, that site’s been around forever — before anybody was even using teh words dyscalculia. So, it’s not carpetbagging by somebody who’s spotted a market. Does have a scent of sleaze in it, though — the idea that “of course you have dyscalculia — so send me this information and give me the money, and I’ll give you something official-looking that says so. ” The motivation could, on the other hand, be “we victims of dyscalculia have to stick together and do whatever it takes to keep ‘em from making us do math.” My experience has paralleled the research on the topic — true ‘dyscalculia’ is very rare; dysteachia all too common, as well as other LD’s impinging on success in math. I think waving the white surrender-to-disorder flag happens’ all too quickly.