About Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty characterised by impairments in learning basic arithmetic facts, processing and performing accurate and fluent calculations. Research indicates that around 5% of the population may have dyscalculia. It may occur alongside other specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Typical symptoms may include:

• Poor sense of number and estimation
• Weak mental arithmetic skills
• Difficulty counting backwards
• Slowness in performing calculations
• Forgets procedures, especially those with several steps
• Lack of strategies to compensate for the lack of recall, reverts to counting
• Use of avoidance strategies
• Anxiety about mathematics generally

I am able to offer assessment for dyscalculia.