Dyscalculia

Intelligence, according to British psychologist Charles Spearman, is general cognitive ability that could be measured and numerically expressed. There has been a presentable amount of research done to prove the relationship between one’s intelligence and how it affects their workplace achievements as well as academic achievements. Similarly, students’ achievements in their classrooms are also thought to be in direct relation to their intelligence. So, what of students who face various learning…

troublesome behavior. There are three types of learning disabilities. Dyslexia, when a child or an adult have a severe impairment in their ability to read and spell. Dysgraphia, a learning disability that involves difficulty in hand writing. Dyscalculia, a learning disability that involves difficulty in math computation. Before reading this topic, I never knew there were three types of learning disabilities. I was only taught of dyslexia, and how it affects a child or adults ability to read…

participants (students) indicate that deficit or absence of item and serial order short term memory where implicated in dyslexics (Wang et al., 2016; Majerus & Cowan 2016). It was also indicated in other developmental learning disabilities like dyscalculia (Attout & Majerus, 2015) as well as increased risk for other learning problems in diverse cognitive domains (leclercq & Majerus, 2010, Jaroslawska, Gathercole, Logie & Holmes,…

Objectives: 1. Students will be able to apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the unknown side of a right triangle. 2. Students will determine how to use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve mathematical problems 3. Students will be able to evaluate expressions and solve equations with single digit exponents NY State Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.6 Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.7 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine…

1. Identify five areas in which children’s lives need to be improved and explain the roles of resilience and social policy in children’s development. Five areas in which children’s lives need to be imporved are: health/wellbeing, parenting, education, sociocultural context/diversity, and gender. Children’s health before and after birth can affect their lives and ability to learn, thus it needs to be improved. Similarly, parenting can have a positive of negative affect in children’s lives.…

Socioemotional development in infancy play important roles in learning to communicate with others and organize our behaviors. They use crying, smiling and other facial expressions to show emotions. Primary emotions are present in humans and other mammals and usually appear in the first 6 months such as fear, joy, sadness and excitement until they later develop self-conscious emotions like jealousy, empathy, embarrassment and shame which is more prominent after 16 months after birth. These…

Please list and describe 2 instructional strategies you can use to improve Emma’s reading fluency. 1. Word accuracy comes before speed. To work on word accuracy the teacher can practice word work and phrase work with Emma to build her fluency and help her read and recognize words. The phrases can be part of the reading passages that are being worked on to help her read the passage more fluently and work towards automaticity. 2. Instruction on morphological awareness and semantic mapping.…

the wrong thing. According to Cortiella and Horowitz, the public has a very large misconception on people with learning disabilities (7.) Two third of the people interviewed do not know about conditions such as dysgraphia (deficient in writing), dyscalculia (deficient in math), and dyspraxia (deficient in coordination) at all (4 & 7). 43% of the people wrongly associate learning disabilities with I.Q. Up to one third of the people incorrectly think that such condition are caused by things such…

Partnerships in society can assist with individuals taking a stand to acknowledge issues such as abuse. when a community is on board to make necessary changes by acknowledging the needs of the neighborhood it makes it easier to implement plans and programs, however; community members, especially those who hold power, has to raise awareness on a local level and encourage the public to take pride in their neighborhood knowing that they all are playing a vital role being an active citizen while…

In the recent years dyslexia has been coming to light about what causes dyslexia. Dyslexia is a genetic learning disability that effects more than reading, writing, and speaking, although there is biological changes that happen in the left hemisphere of the brain shows if a person has dyslexia besides symptoms of delayed literacy and language development. In recent discussions of dyslexia the support from schools and parents make this challenging for the student to learn, a controversial issue…