Dyscalculia is a specific type of learning disability. It is often diagnosed early in a child’s educational career and typically causes the child to struggle with math and numbers. It can be a very frustrating disability for anyone, especially children. Children with Dyscalculia, as with many other learning disabilities, may seem disorganized and may often ...
A Learning Disability is characterized as a brain-based processing problem. This means that children or adults with a learning disability do not process information the same as children without a learning disability. This processing problem can interfere with a child’s ability to learn in reading, math and writing, and other classes. It can also interfere ...
Gerstmann’s Syndrome (Gerstmann Tetrad) in adults or developmental Gerstmann’s Syndrome in children is rare neurological disorder, discovered first in 1924 by neurologist Gerstmann. 1 Onset of Gerstmann’s syndrome in adults may occur after a stroke or damage to a part of the brain called the left (3) parietal lobe. 2 Symptoms related to Gerstmann’s syndrome ...
A learning disability (LD) may be any of a number of conditions that make the process of learning difficult, because of the way an individual brain learns and functions. It is believed that 10% of students presently in school have some type of learning disability. For most people, their disability becomes recognizable early in their ...
Dyscalculia refers to a syndrome found in people with specific learning disability in mathematics. Individuals with dyscalculia suffer with the inability to memorize and/or retain mathematical concepts and also have other characteristics and display other symptoms. In spite of their academic acuity in other subjects, those with dyscalculia are baffled when they read, understand and ...
For as long as I can remember I have had trouble with math. In school I hated math, especially once things got beyond the simplest adding and subtracting. I remember having to stay after school for not doing my work. The problem with adding more than two numbers of 3 or more digits each was ...
When it comes to traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), brain trauma therapists can identify the area of injury from symptoms alone. Of course MRIs, CT and PET scans are used, but injuries can also be identified by what the TBI sufferer cannot or does do. For example, if the person shows a sudden inability to do ...
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