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Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties:

A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
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Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the acquisition of numerical skills. A far larger number of pupils, while not dyscalculic, fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required for everyday life. Whatever the cause of poor numeracy it is essential that these difficulties are identified and addressed. This book looks at how adults can help identify each child's specific areas of difficulty and describes a multi-sensory approach that can be adapted for the needs of each student to help them better understand numbers and apply that understanding to solve problems. It covers the origins of number sense and how the brain deals with numbers, assessment, planning intervention, what to teach and how to teach it, and how parents can help their children. This straightforward guide will be essential reading for any parent, teacher or education professional working with a child with dyscalculia or numeracy difficulties.
Part I. Overview of Numeracy Learning and Assessment. 1. Dyscalculia, Numeracy Difficulties and Specific Learning Difficulties. 2. How Pupils Learn. 3. What is Numeracy?. 4. The Causes of Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties. 5. Assessment. 6. Identifying Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties. Part II. Teaching. 7. Planning and Assessment for Teaching. 8. What to Teach. 9. How to Teach. 10. How Parents Can Help. Useful Organizations. Bibliography. Index.
Babtie and Emerson have made their way through a thicket of jargon-dense research and come out the other side with a one-stop shop for understanding dyscalculia. The title is too modest. Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties does so much more than make sense of this little understood condition, it provides practical advice for working through it that in our modern, math-filled world has the power to make all the difference in your student's life.
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