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Dyscalculia and dyslexia

  • Educational Approaches In Dyslexia
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It is our hope that more practitioners in the field of learning disabilities will include the diagnosis and treatment of dyscalculia as they work with children and older individuals. Although there is much more to be explored, we believe that our clinical experience indicates that information-processing deficits may be a contributory factor in the disability and thus warrant further investigation. Furthermore, we believe that insights gained in the treatment of specific language disability may be fruitfully applied in the treatment of dyscalculia.

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  1. ELDA Reading and Math Clinic, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Kaia Svien & Donna Sherlock

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  1. Kaia Svien
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This paper is a condensed version of a presentation at the 29th Annual Conference of The Orton Society, November 1978, at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Svien, K., Sherlock, D. Dyscalculia and dyslexia. Bulletin of the Orton Society 29, 269–276 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653749

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