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This is an 8 page paper on the learning disability dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is a developmental mathematical learning disability which is often considered part of or the same as dyslexia, the developmental reading and writing disability. While dyslexia has been known to cause some dysfunction in the understanding of mathematical elements, dyscalculia is much more complex in that it also includes over fifty different distinct classes of mathematical disabilities which include elements of confusion of abstract and strategic thought, an inability to properly construct time, schedules, or visual representations of places and directions as well as a person’s inability to conduct many tasks necessary in the running of a household such as financial planning, balancing checkbooks and credit cards, and may also include instances of people being habitually late, lost or unable to locate objects among other factors. Researchers in special education feel that the disability of dyscalculia is not being addressed in the educational systems because largely Americans are more accepting of being mathematically deficient but find that being deficient in reading and writing is not socially acceptable.
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understanding of mathematical elements, dyscalculia is much more complex in that it also includes over fifty different distinct classes of mathematical disabilities which include elements of confusion of abstract
and strategic thought, an inability to properly construct time, schedules, or visual representations of places and directions as well as a persons inability to conduct many tasks necessary in the
running of a household such as financial planning, balancing checkbooks and credit cards, and may also include instances of people being habitually late, lost or unable to locate objects among
other factors. Researchers in special education feel that the disability of dyscalculia is not being addressed in the educational systems because largely Americans are more accepting of being mathematically deficient
but find that being deficient in reading and writing is not socially acceptable. Developmental reading disability, also known as dyslexia, occurs in approximately
2 to 8 percent of elementary school children and while many children may have problems in reading initially, children with dyslexia have an inability to distinguish or separate sounds in
spoken words, have problem sounding out words and have problems rhyming words among other important factors in learning to read (Synapse Adaptive, 2002). Often forms of dyslexia can overlap with
other disabilities such as developmental arithmetic disorder, also known as dyscalculia which involves a child being unable to recognize numbers or symbols, memorize facts, or align numbers or understand abstract
concepts such as place or fractions (Synapse Adaptive, 2002). Dyscalculia is similar to dyslexia in that it is believed to be a visual
perceptual deficit but dyscalculia refers more specifically to a childs inability to perform operations in mathematics or arithmetic. Although there is no specific cause which has been found for dyscalculia,
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