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Happy International Dyscalculia Day!

March 3rd is World Dyscalculia Day. Celebrate by learning about this disorder, and helping to get the word out!

Dyscalculia is a math disability, similar to dyslexia. A lot of people joke about having “math dyslexia” without realizing that it’s quite real. In addition to effecting a person’s number sense and ability to [...]

How many dyscalculics does it take to change a light bulb?*

Yesterday I hung a light in my art studio. Just an ordinary shop light, soft wired, hung from basic ceiling hooks, with daylight corrected bulbs instead of standard florescent tubes. It’s the kind of thing that should take half an hour.
But when you have dyscalculia and ADD, it goes something like this:

More fun with google voice

Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks. I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS. I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten [...]

Early music education as dyscalculia remediation

I came across this fascinating post by an Iranian researcher. It turns out music education might significantly improve dyscalculia symptoms:

Conclusion: Experimental groups skills in math and Music training group in scores of IQ had show increased. Some methods, such as bilateral brain training and Music training could be used to reduced symptoms of dyscalculia disorder.

As [...]

Google Voice Mail ain’t perfect, but it’s still awesome

Google Voice provides voicemail, sent right to your e-mail inbox

Google provides me with yet another piece of adaptive technology for my learning disabilities

Google, in their never-ending quest for world domination to create technology to make our lives easier, has come out with Google Voice Mail. Google Voice is a free VOIP service that provides [...]

Canada’s with me

Rickie Sugars is glad the study proves a link between learning disabilities and poor mental health.

I have no idea when this story ran in the Vancouver Sun, but it’s worth a look. The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has released a study on the long-term effects of undiagnosed learning disabilities. The results? Lasting psychological harm.

I [...]

The disruptive power of 2

I get confused when there two of something. That is, when I am trying to remember the difference between two related but distinct concepts. For instance, there’s the difference between “affect” and “effect” that I wrote about yesterday. Another example is the difference between “inductive” and “deductive” reasoning, which I must have learned about half [...]

How do I know if I have learning disabilities?

I hang out on the Dyscalculia Forum, and there are frequent new member posts from adults wondering if they have LD. They go something like this:

I had no idea this condition existed, but when I read the definition on this forum it sounded just like me! I’ve been terrible at math my whole life. [...]

The emotional effects of LD

There’s a persistent myth out there that learning disabilities are a problem of childhood; as if somehow, our dyslexia or Asperger’s or visual processing disorder just vaporizes upon reaching the age of legal majority.

This is not the case.

It is also not the case that LD is contained within the four walls of the classroom. [...]

“Twice Exceptional”

OR, “My Mommy Says I’m Special!”

At the moment I’m taking a break from filling out a quantitative survey on development in twice-exceptional adults. Twice-exceptional, or 2e, refers to people who are diagnosed with both giftedness and LD.

It’s kind of a weird label for kind of a weird condition. As you might have guessed, [...]

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