Dyscalculia.org is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to advancing understanding and treatment of specific learning disabilities in mathematics AKA dyscalculia. Dyscalculia.org aims to provide free to the public, information about math learning disability: history, terminology, science, research, treatment, causes of innumeracy; best practices for diagnosis, treatment, teaching and learning; relevant laws, rules and protections; school, self and organizational advocacy; and access and accommodations across the academic lifespan. Dyscalculia.org also aims to develop science-based multimedia instruction on dyscalculia for teachers, administrators, parents and professionals. Dyscalculia.org will develop through collaborations and partnerships, free or nominal cost, multimedia interactive computerized programs to remediate dyscalculia in affected children and adults. Dyscalculia.org will provide training in the diagnosis of dyscalculia and proper prescriptive programming. Dyscalculia.org will offer full-credit math courses-- in partnership with educational content developers and publishers and in partnership with diploma and degree granting institutions-- tailored specifically to reach those with dyscalculia and proven to deliver lasting measurable educational outcomes. Courses will include: how we learn math, history of math, basic numeracy, basic math, the language of mathematics, pre-algebra, geometry, algebra, statistics, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus, math for advanced sciences, math for the social sciences, business math, life skills math, accounting, bookkeeping, history of math, women of mathematics, and physics. |