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How your child with dyslexia works on Math

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Although closely related, not all children with dyslexia also suffer from dyscalculia and vice versa, but now researchers have found that dyslectic children use the same part of their brain for both addition and subtraction. Other children use different parts of the brain for these different operations. It explains why children with dyslexia will also have some other learning issues.

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Dyslexia tutoring, go back to basics

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For many years, dyslexia was viewed simply as a reading disorder, rather than a multi-faceted neurological condition that can combine auditory, visual and memory-based language difficulties. As a result, many of the programmes for dyslexic children were fixated on phonics and distinguishing between the smallest sounds (phonemes) that go to make up words.

 

Phonics are one side of a very complex story. It’s become increasingly apparent that dyslexia can manifest as a range of symptoms. These overlap with other disorders such as dyspraxia and dysgraphia because many of the same brain areas are involved.

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Baby Brainwaves predict Dyslexia

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Dutch researchers have measured brainwaves from kids at three months and in third grade. Here is their conclusion (but please read the whole article in the link to appreciate this great piece of research):

Results suggest that combining family-risk status, neurophysiological testing and behavioral test scores in a longitudinal setting may help uncover physiological mechanisms implicated with neurodevelopmental disorders such as the predisposition to reading disabilities.

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