ASK A TEACHER What is Dyscalcuia? with Nancy Downing |
Q: What is Dyscalcuia? A: Dyscalcuia is a learning difference in the world of math calculations. There is no clear and measurable criteria to diagnose a person with this learning difference. One symptom is seeing, saying, or writing numbers in the wrong sequential order. An example would be 316 is 163 or even E16. Often letters are seen. Another symptom might be the placement or rotation of symbols. Examples would be “+” looks like “x” OR “5-3” is seen as “-53”. Can you imagine taking Algebra? Copyright 2008 Nancy Downing. All rights reserved. |
Nancy has been an educator for 30 years and is currently a special education teacher.
She is the former Center Director of LearningRx in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has
received local, state, and national recognition for her development of Downfeld
Phonics, a multi-sensory reading program. Nancy also wrote curriculum for an
educational technology company.
Nancy is a single mother of three children: one with learning differences, one gifted,
and one who has to work for his grades. Not only does she know what it is like to teach
all these different learning styles at school, but she has the experience of dealing with
all aspects of each twenty-four seven.
She is the former Center Director of LearningRx in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has
received local, state, and national recognition for her development of Downfeld
Phonics, a multi-sensory reading program. Nancy also wrote curriculum for an
educational technology company.
Nancy is a single mother of three children: one with learning differences, one gifted,
and one who has to work for his grades. Not only does she know what it is like to teach
all these different learning styles at school, but she has the experience of dealing with
all aspects of each twenty-four seven.
| Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6) |