Learning disabilities are not restricted to discomfort with numbers and language only. If you dissect these issues deeply, you will find other co-morbidities working behind the scenes too. Difficulty in reasoning, comprehending, or ascertaining orientation or inability to take care of the self, which is what cognitive disability sums up as, is the result of … Read more
It’s hard for a child with learning disorders to match the performance of a regular child. They can’t just study the same curriculum given to the abled kids and if they can, they require a little extra effort than their counterparts. Thus in order to make developmental, behavioral, and social skills better for the differently-abled … Read more
Greetings from the other side. Let’s give you the benefit of the doubt and see how fast and efficiently you can read and transcribe the following passages. Tiring and exhausting, isn’t it? The above depicts just a chapter in the life of a dyslexic individual. Currently, we share the earth with approximately 7.8 billion humans … Read more
How to develop gross motor skills in preschoolers? If you have a certain gap in your understanding of this topic, we suggest you read this post till the end. For the uninitiated, Gross motor skills are defined as the ability to make movements that involve limbs and torso muscles. A well-developed gross motor skill is … Read more
We all see small children trying to pick words from family members; that is why a home is called the first school for a child. But, is a child while imitating parents and siblings showing phonemic awareness? The answer is no. A child is admitted to a preschool or is home trained to learn to … Read more
WJ-IV tests of achievement are useful for checking the reading, writing, calculation, reasoning, and overall cognitive abilities of a person. The tests are classified into various batteries that help determine some specific portions of language or reasoning proficiency. Accordingly, these are named WJ-IV tests of achievement for testing cognitive flexibility, cluster tests for language skills, … Read more
REVIEWED BY NUMBERDYSLEXIA’S EXPERT PANEL ON AUG. 10, 2020 Often left undiagnosed behind dyslexia, Dyscalculia is the math’s and mathematical operations’ learning difficulty. This difficulty can stay with person throughout life. A dyscalculic person finds it difficult to recognize and count numbers; also, they cannot do mental math or judge distance or height, or deal with currency … Read more
REVIEWED BY NUMBERDYSLEXIA’S EXPERT PANEL ON JULY 14, 2020 Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disorders in many children. Combating it requires the time and effort of both the child as well as the caretaker. To help these children and their caretakers, many solutions have been proposed. Some of the popular and well-known measures include … Read more
What are your first reactions to seeing the picture above? Certainly, you will feel like throwing the book away at once, or you will rush to an ophthalmologist to check what has gone wrong with your eyes. Now, compound this effect on a daily basis each time the words or letters appear in front of … Read more
MEDICALLY REVIEWED BY NUMBERDYSLEXIA’S MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL ON JUNE 24, 2020 The fear of Mathematics and numbers is called Dyscalculia which is a learning disability also termed as number blindness. Extensive studies have recorded that nearly 7% of the population with average intelligence have the problem. The innate number sense of the human brain is not in … Read more