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Math achievement lags behind learning in other subjects, despite other average or advanced academic skills. Number tasks produce  anxiety and distress. Despite good effort, attendance,  and instruction, the student fails to gain lasting skill, understanding, and retention. Benchmark tests document consistent under-performance.  "Mercy grades" allow for social advancement. 

Dyscalculia 6-26%

Dyscalculia is defined as consistent failure to achieve in mathematics commensurate with age, intelligence, adequate instruction, and effort. It is marked by difficulties with counting, working memory, visualization; visuospatial,  directional, and sequential perception and processing; retrieval of learned facts and procedures; quantitative reasoning speed; motor sequencing; perception of time; and the accurate interpretation and representation of numbers when reading, copying, writing, reasoning, speaking, and recalling. Dyscalculia affects 6% to 7% of the population and is higher when weaker forms are included.

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  2. random number and symbol mixups when reading, thinking, copying, writing, speaking, and remembering

  3. unreliable memory of numbers, math facts, rules, and procedures

  4. inordinate effort nets disappointing results

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  6. counting and calculation with fingers or marks

  7. is quickly overwhelmed- experiences frustration, tears,  distress, anxiety, panic, and avoidance

  8. struggles with handling money

  9. See more in The Dyscalculia Checklist

Definition

Specific Learning Disorders (SLDs) are defined in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association. 

"Specific Learning Disorder-- with impairment in Mathematics (315.1), Reading (315.0), or Written Expression (315.2). SLD is "a neurodevelopmental disorder of biological origin manifested in learning difficulties and problems in acquiring academic skills markedly below age level and manifested in the early school years, lasting for at least 6 months, not attributed to intellectual disabilities, developmental disorders, or neurological or motor disorders." 

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