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Subject: Re: Wondering if I might be mildly dyslexic


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Christine Grace (: ))
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Date Posted: 09:46:48 07/19/12 Thu
In reply to: Kate 's message, "Re: Wondering if I might be mildly dyslexic" on 07:18:56 07/08/12 Sun

Math dyslexia is called Dyscalculia. Its more newly recognized from the language dyslexia and thus less wildly known. I was diagnosed with Dyslexia at age four, but hadn't discovered I had Dyscalculia until I was in my late teens.

My Dyscalculia is actually far more severe for me than my language Dyslexia-- so I know how you feel.

People with Dyscalculia are usually visual-spatial minded. Since numbers, though represented by visual symbols, are abstract concepts so people with Dyscalculia struggle memorizing number sequences and learning mathematical formulas.

Switching the order of numbers is VERY typical for Dyscalculia- I do it all the time. As well as things such as doing long division with the correct steps, however, messing up when it comes to carrying the numbers into the correct columns causing me to have the wrong answer *technically* off by one number. VERY frustrating.

There is more and more research developing to make mathematics logical to the visual spatial and/or Dyscalculic brain. You should check it out!

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