How Can I Support a Student With Dyscalculia?
Dyscalculia is a form of learning disability whereby the student has difficulty with math. Dyscalculia may impact the person’s ability to tell time, manage money or shop independently. Dyscalculia can be caused due to deficits in the:
Visual spatial abilities with features like:
Reversal of numbers (writing 6 instead of 9, 3 backwards)
Difficulty copying numbers from […]
How Can I Support Students With Dysgraphia?
Dysgraphia is a developmental disorder that may be caused due to impairment of the child’s motor skills, visual-spatial perceptual skills and in some cases language processing skills. A student with dysgraphia may exhibit illegible writing, difficulty in forming certain letters, inaccurate positioning on the lines and spacing between letters and words, difficulty in […]
Why Do I Need Assistive Technology in My Classroom?
Students with learning disabilities mostly have difficulties in reading, writing, calculations, memorizing, planning organizing or completing a task. The constant struggle with schoolwork eventually results in poor performance, decreased self-confidence and increased frustration at their perceived failures. Assistive technology has been defined as any item, piece of equipment or system that helps people […]
Understanding IQ Scores in the Classroom
A primary issue about interpreting an IQ score is that errors commonly occur in the analysis of IQ tests. Intelligence tests measure a variety of mental skills, which are lumped together and called “intelligence.” The result is an IQ score. This number is supposed to be a […]
Understanding Achievement & IQ Testing in School
Sometimes we encourage administering achievement and intelligence tests to find out what’s going on with children who struggle in the classroom. To understand these tests, here’s a simple definition of what IQ and achievement tests show:
INTELLIGENCE (IQ) Tests measure cognitive mental skills and basic processing ability.
ACHIEVEMENT Tests determine […]
