Math Difficulty Support
What is Math Difficulty?
Math difficulty or Dyscalculia is a term that refers to a range of difficulties with maths that include weaknesses in understanding numbers and difficulty applying mathematical concepts and principles to solve problems. Dyscalculia is a math learning disability that impairs an individual’s ability to learn number-related concepts, perform accurate math calculations, reason and problem solving and perform other basic math skills.
Signs and Symptoms
Some of the typical symptoms of dyscalculia include:
Difficulties with processing numbers and quantities including:
- Connecting a number to the quantity it represents (the number 2 to two apples)
- Counting, backwards and forwards
- Comparing two amounts
- Trouble with subitizing (recognize quantities without counting)
- Trouble recalling basic math facts (like multiplication tables)
- Difficulty linking numbers and symbols to amounts
- Trouble with mental math and problem-solving
- Difficulty making sense of money and estimating quantities
- Difficulty with telling time on an analog clock
- Frequent school absences
- Poor visual and spatial orientation
- Difficulty immediately sorting out direction (right from left)
- Troubles with recognizing patterns and sequencing numbers
- Difficulty counting backwards
- Trouble remembering the basic facts
- Weak mental arithmetic skills
- Slow to do sums or perform calculations
- Poor sense of numbers and estimation
- Addition is most often the default arithmetic operation
- Difficulty understanding place value
- High levels of math anxiety
If you see such problems in your child for a prolonged period of time, it is important to get him or her assessed for math difficulty and get the support needed to help him/her overcome the challenge and achieve their personal and academic goals.
How we can help
- Our members of School Psychology India undergo a systematic approach to help impart skills one step at a time and come up with individualized instruction to address the unique challenges and strengths of each child.
- If you suspect that your child has a math disability or difficulty, feel free to book an appointment with us by filling this form or sending an email to care@specialchild.in with your queries and basic information of your child. We will get back to you with a reply mail with information on the first appointment/consultation.
- On first consultation which is free, one of our experts will discuss about the child and his/her requirements and will decide on whether an assessment is required or not.
- If assessment is required, the expert will discuss the payment and time involved and then fix a schedule for the first assessment.
- On the first assessment, we do a comprehensive assessment of your child’s math difficulty using various time-tested strategies and methods to confirm the presence of the difficulty and to determine its intensity.
- Based on our assessment and evaluation, a second consultation (free of cost) will be scheduled and the report of the assessment will be discussed with much emphasis on what needs to be done and the parents will be given options which include self-training, IEP support, online coaching, mentoring support and counselling.
- Based on the parents’ requirement, a coach or mentor is allotted to assist the child with the process.
- An IEP or Individualized Education Plan for the child will be designed by our special educators. The parent or teacher will be educated / trained on how to use the IEP effectively to train the child.
- At this juncture too, parents can choose whether they want to self-coach or opt for trainer-assisted coaching.
- Counselling is also an integral part of the process whereby our specialized child counselors offer the right support, guidance, and advice as and when required by the parent, teacher or the child.
- All the components of the process including consultation, assessment, evaluation, IEP designing, coaching, training, mentoring, and counselling will take place through the online platform. We will guide you from the beginning to the end and ensure the child is adequately trained to attain his/her personal and academic goals.
If you see any sign and symptom of math difficulty in your child, contact us right away.
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- Assessment is a gathering of relevant information about an individual’s areas of strengths and challenges to determine whether he or she may have a disability or a disorder or a unique ability.
- The child will be evaluated for the disorder by reviewing academic records and performance in standardized tests, knowing about family history, and learning more about how the child’s difficulties manifest in school and everyday life.
- One of the main indicators of dyscalculia is the inability to subitise. The word ‘subitise’ comes from the Latin word ‘subito’ which means suddenly. It refers to our ability to immediately recognise the number of items in a set without having to actually count them. Most people can subitise up to six or seven items. A learner with dyscalculia will not be able to do this and may have difficulty in subitising even just three items.
- Checklists are simple and quick to administer and are often the first option to consider when trying to identify dyscalculia.
- The probable next step after completing a checklist is to administer a dyscalculia screener. There are several options to choose from.
- We can test to assess verbal and visual IQ, working memory, and processing speed. These quantitative assessments need to be interpreted alongside more qualitative assessments to gain a complete picture of the child’s profile.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon an assessment to identify the areas in which your child needs improvement.
- An IEP will include a list of objectives, secondary objectives, plan to achieve those objectives, interventions, and techniques to reach the set objective and alternatives to support contingencies.
- An Individualized Education Plan is a planned schedule of instructions for a child to attain certain objectives in a fixed period.
- Many children have trouble bridging informal math knowledge to formal school math. To build these connections takes time, experiences, and carefully guided instruction. The use of structured, concrete materials is important to securing these links, not only in the early elementary grades, but also during concept development stages of higher-level math.
- Based on the assessment, a learning specialist will develop a plan to target your child’s individual needs, help him/her build core readiness skills and connections between different concepts, and assist in developing strategies he/she can implement throughout life.
- The assessment will provide us a list of areas where the child needs to improve and an IEP will be designed to plan a strategy to improvise those areas in a certain period. An IEP will include a list of objectives, secondary objectives, plan to achieve those objectives, interventions, and techniques to reach the set objective and alternatives to support contingencies.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon an assessment to identify the areas in which your child needs improvement through a well drafted IEP.
- Children with math disabilities require lifelong assistance and optimal management strategies differ depending on the child’s age and circumstances.
- If you choose to self-coach them, our experts will be happy to extend mentoring services which include weekly once interaction about the child’s work based on the IEP.
- Our mentors will provide you the tips and techniques to get the work done with your child.
- They will guide you in times of need and will help you work with your child.
- In mentoring, the experts will not be dealing with the child on a day-to-day basis while there will be scheduled sessions with parents like 2 or 4 sessions in a month.
- Assessment report and an IEP is needed to avail Mentoring services.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.
- Research shows that the most successful math interventions are explicit and systematic. One way to do that is to verbalize thought processes. In other words, as students think about how to solve a problem, probe them to say what they are thinking aloud. It is important here to listen patiently and without judgment even if their mathematical language is inexact or their reasoning is imperfect.
- Our experts will be able to coach your child online on a day-to-day basis for a fixed amount of time through Google Meet or any other video chat platform.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.
- Parents need to be aware of the child’s potential as well as the areas where he/she needs that extra push. Besides, parents need to understand what academic disorders mean to the child and his/her life while caring about the child’s academic life and career ahead.
- Counselling is a type of service that aims to provide the necessary knowledge, tools, guidance, and especially support to parents without bias or judgment.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.