Experts
FEATURED DYSCALCULIA EXPERTS - BY LOCATION
EUROPE
England: Dr. Brian Butterworth | Dr. Stephen Chin | Tony Attwood | Shad Moraif
France: Stanislas Dehaene
Austria: Margaret Delazer, Liane Kaufman
Germany: Dr. Michael Wehrmann
Czechoslovakia: Dr. Ladislav Kosc (1924-2016)
New Zealand: Dr. Anna Wilson
Canada: Dr. Brad B. Hale | Dr. John Mighton | Dr. Daniel Ansari
USA: Dr. Vinon Menon (CA) | Dr. Nancy Jordan (DE) | Dr. Alfredo Ardila (FL) | Dr. Paul Nolting (FL) | Mahesh Sharma (MA) | Renee Newman (MI) | Michelle Mazzocco (MN) | Dr. David Geary (MO) | Dr. Josef Gerstmann (NY) | Dr. Gavin Price (TN) | Dr, Daniel Berch (VA) | Dr. Virginia Berninger (WA) | Dr. Edward Hubbard (WI)
Dr. Brian Butterworth, Cognitive Neuroscientist, Institute of Education - London, England
- University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Univ. of Melbourne | +61 3 8344 6377 |
- SITES: AboutDyscalculia.org | The Mathematical Brain
- BOOKS: What Counts | The Mathematical Brain
- Dyscalculia Assessment | Dyscalculia Guidance | Developmental Dyscalculia
- Mental Cognition Research | Mathematical Cognition
- VIDEO: Just Trial & Error
- GAMES: Number Games (NATURE 2013) | Number Sense (PC Games, APPS)
Dr. Stephen Chin, England
- steve.chinn@btinternet.com
- Maths Explained Videos
- BOOKS: Routledge Intl. Handbook of Dyscalculia - 30 chapters by global experts, 2014.
- Sum Hope: Break Numbers Barrier
- Dealing w/ Dyscalculia: Sum Hope 2
- Mathematics for Dyslexics/Dyscalculics
- What to do...Can't Learn...Times Tables
- The Trouble With Maths
- Worksheets Bk 4: Measurement & Data
- Affiliations: Learning Works | Egon Publishers | Neil MacKay Dyslexia | Dyslexia Action
Tony Attwood, Chair, The UK Dyscalculia Centre, England UK
- Publications: Practical Activities...Dyscalculia | Dyscalculia in Schools
- Methods of Teaching...Dyscalculia | Tests for Dyscalculia
- Dyscalculia Activities 1: + to division
- Affiliations: First and Best in Education | Hamilton House Mailings Ltd.
Shad Moraif, Psychologist, Author, Professor, Vancouver, BC, Canada, London, England
- shad@karismath.com
- KarisMath - visual Algebra online interactive lessons with CLSO instruction
- CLSO Math - Concepts, Language, Symbols, Operations
- Learning Disabilities Association
Kinga Morsanyi, Lecturer, School of Psychology, Queen's University - Belfast Ireland
- k.morsanyi@qub.ac.uk
- Publications: Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation
- Dyscalculia Reason for Poor Math (2018)
- Do Children with Mathematical Disorder have an Order Processing Deficit? (2018)
- Mathematical and Statistics Anxiety: Educational, Social, Developmental and Cognitive Perspectives (2016)
- Cognition, Development and Education
Stanislas Dehaene | INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging, Paris, France
- Publications: From Monkey Brain to Human Brain | Reading in the Brain
- The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
- Research: Dyscalculia Research | Mental Cognition Research
- Games: The Number Race (remedial software)
- Affiliations: Edge | International Society for the Study of Attention and Performance
Margaret Delazer - Professor, Researcher, University of Innsbruck - Austria
- margarete.delazer@i-med.ac.at
- Understanding the Brain: Birth of Learning Science
- Publications
- Research : Project Neruomath
- Affiliations: CERI Center for Education Research and Innovation
Dr. Michael Wehrmann, Institut für Mathematisches Lerne Braunschweig, Germany
- Wissenschaftliche Leitung
- Wehrmann@zahlbegriff.de
- Promotion an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- am Institut für Mathematik, Abteilung Didaktik
- über das am IML umgesetzte Forschungsthema
- Qualitative Diagnostik von Rechenschwierigkeiten
- im Grundlagenbereich Arithmetik“.
Dr. Ladislav Kosc, Clinical Psychologist (1924-2016), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
- Head of the Department of Child Pathopsychology in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
- Publications:
- Handbook of Mathematical Cognition
- Problems in Diagnosing Dyscalculia
- Developmental Dyscalculia (1974)
- 6% of pop.; Types: verbal, practognostic, lexical, graphical, ideognostical, and operational
- Learning Disabilities: Definition or Specification? (1987)...
Anna Wilson | Univ. of Canterbury |Univ. of Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand
- Site: AboutDyscalculia,org
- Games: The Number Race (4-8) | The Number Catcher (9+)
- Publications: Number Crunch (2013) | Number Sense & Dyscalculia
- Dyscalculia Primer & Resource Guide | Teachers+Brain Research (2013)
- Affiliations: INSERM-CEA Neuroimaging - Paris, France | Univ. Oregon | Univ California - Berkeley
Dr. Brad B. Hale | University of Victoria - Victoria, BC, Canada
Dr. John Mighton - Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Toronto - Canada
- Programs: JUMP Math
- Publications: The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Math Ability in Every Child (2003)
- The End of Ignorance (2007)
- JUMP: (Jr. Undisc. Math Prodigies) | JUMP MATH
- Playwright: 3 Gov. General Awards
Dr. Daniel Ansari - Prof. Dev. Cognitive Neuroscience, Univ. of Western Ontario - Canada
- daniel.ansari@uwo.ca | Associate Editor, Developmental Science, 2009
- Publications: Dyscalculia: Characteristics, Causes & Treatments (2013) w/ Gavin R. Price
- Math Anxiety & Dyscalculia (2011)
- List of Publications at the Numerical Cognition Laboratory
- About the Mathematical Brain
- Affiliations: Univ. of Sussex | University of Oxford | Univ. College London
Vinod Menon, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- menon@stanford.edu
- MathBrain Project - Neuroscience Dept. at Stanford University
- MathBrain Project Goals:
- (1) To better understand the normal development of mathematical skills.
- (2) To understand the neural basis of dyscalculia and mathematical difficulties.
- (3) To develop brain-based methods and evidence to help improve mathematical skills in individuals with dyscalculia and specific learning disabilities.
- MathBrain Project Goals:
- Publications: Mathematical Cognition & Dyscalculia
- Neuroanatomical correlates of developmental dyscalculia: combined evidence from morphometry and tractography (2009)
- Studies: Autism & Math | Math ages: 7, 8, 9 | Adults & Math | Children & Math
Dr. Nancy Jordan, Center for Improving Learning of Fractions, University of Delaware USA
- njordan@udel.edu
- Publications: Number Sense Screener Guide K-1, Res. Ed.
- Number Sense Screener Stimulis (Res. Ed.) | Number Sense Screener Record Sheets
- Number Sense Screener Quick Script | Number Sense Interventions
- Number Sense Screener Set (Res. Ed.) | Number Sense Screener User Guide
- Number Sense Screener Research Set
- Affiliations: University of Deleware - College of Education and Human Development
- National Research Council Early Childhood Mathematics
Dr. Alfredo Ardila, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Florida International Univ. USA
- Publications: Acalculia (1998) |
- Memory abilities ... subtypes of dyscalculia. Dev Neuropsychol. 2006.
- Gender...correlates of math skills in school-aged... Child Neuropsychol. 2009 May 15.
- On the evolution of calculation abilities. Front Evol Neurosci. 2010.
- Dysexecutive agraphia... Neurosci. 2006 May.
- Speech & Language Disorders in Bilinguals | International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology | Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective
Dr. Paul D. Nolting, Univ. of S. Florida, & Florida Gulf Coast University USA
- Publications: College Math Substitutions (1993)
- Winning At Math | Math & Disability Handbook
- Math Study Skills Workbook (2011) | Beg. Algebra + Workbook
- Intermediate Algebra: Workbook | Math Study Skills Workbook
- Worksheets Plus: Bk 1 - Number System
- Worksheets Plus: Book 2 - Calculations
- Worksheets Plus: Book 3 - Solving
- Affiliations: Cengage Learning | Academic Success
Mahesh Sharma, Professor & Author | Framingham State University | Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
- sharma@mathematicsforall.org
- Center for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
- Journals: Math Notebook | FOCUS on Learning Disabilities in Mathematics
- Workshops: The Differentiated Math Classroom
- Affiliations: Cambridge College, Oxford University, University of Leeds, Framingham State University
Renee M. Hamilton-Newman, M.S.-Sp.Ed., M.Ed-ISD, Founder, Dyscalculia.org, Michigan USA
- renee@dyscalculia.org
- Publications: Dyscalculia.org (since 1997) | The Dyscalculia Syndrome (1998)
- Dyscalculia.org Blog (since 2008) | Conquer Dyscalculia Without Going Broke
- Dyscalculia Dx Report for 25 y-o College (2014) | Dyscalculia Dx Age 22 College
- Money Teaches Math Lessons & Materials | Number Prefix & Money Lessons & Materials | Teaching Money $Quadrillion to $1
- Letter to my Math Teacher (1985) | Math Limits (2014) | Dyscalculia and ADHD (2020)
- Dyscalculia Checklist (1998) | LD Checklist (1998)
- Math Term Menu (2015) | Place Value Parking Lot (2015)
- Sample MLD Report | Sample MLD Parent Report
- ADHD Management |Dysgraphia: Causes & Treatment | The Brain...Doesn't Get Numbers
- Affiliations: Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison | Michigan State Univ | WGU | PBS
Dr. Michelle Mazzocco - University of Minnesota - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- mazzocco@umn.edu | 1+ (612) 624-2928
- Institute of Child Development | Center for Early Education & Dev.
- Research | Mazzocco Math & Numeracy Lab
- Publications
- Why Is Math So Hard For Some Children?: The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
- Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders: Variation of Manifestation in Childhood (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)
Dr. David C. Geary, Univ. of Missouri, Missouri, USA
Dr. Josef Gerstmann, Neuropsychiatrist (1887-1969) New York Acad. of Medicine, New York
- Publications: Gerstmann's Syndrome (1930)
- First used term “dyscalculia” in 1940's.
- Gerstmann's Enigma (1965) | GS over time (2018) | Anatomical Basis (2009)
- Some Notes on Gerstmann's Syndrome, 12-01-1957
- Austrian-born American
Dr. Gavin R. Price | CV | Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee USA
- Cognitive & Educational Neuroscience Lab: Math
- The CEN Lab, at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, uses behavioral and brain imaging methods to investigate how the human brain represents and processes numerical information, and how those processes support the learning of arithmetic and mathematical skills.
- Brain Institute
- RESEARCH STUDIES
- Publications
Daniel B. Berch, Ph.D, University of Virginia, USA
- BOOKS: Why is Math so Hard for Some Children?: The Nature of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
- Working Memory and Mathematical Cognitive Development: Limitations of Limited-Capacity Resource Models
- ASSOCIATIONS: Natl. Institutes of Health | US Dept. of Education
- The Natl. Academies | Natl. Center for Learning Disabilities | CogniFit
Dr. Virginia Berninger, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA
- vwb@u.washington.edu
- Kennedy Shriver Center for Human Development and Disability
- UW Multidisciplinary Learning Disability Center
- Publications: Brain Literacy for Educators & Psychologists
- Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment
- Handbook of Learning Disabilities | Learning about LD
- Essentials in specific learning disability identification
- Oxford Handbook of School Psychology (p. 1422-1622)
- Process Assessment of the Learner Diagnostic for Math (PAL II-M)
Dr. Edward M. Hubbard, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin USA
- emhubbard@wisc.edu | ARTICLES | ED PSYCH @ WI
- University of Wisconsin Educational Neuroscience Lab
- Publications: DISCOVER MAG (2013)
- Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia
- Affiliations: Lifeboat Foundation Neuroscience Board