What are strategies for teaching a student with a math-related learning disability?
Printable Version Dyscalculia is a mathematics-related disability resulting from neurological dysfunction. Students who are diagnosed with Dyscalculia have average to above-average intellectual functioning and a significant discrepancy between their math skills and their chronological-age-peer norms. For a diagnosis of Dyscalculia, it must be determined that the math deficit is not simply related to issues such as poor instruction, vision, hearing or other physical problems, cultural or language differences, or developmental delays. In Accommodating Math Students with Learning Disabilities, author Rochelle Kenyon lists the following strategies for teaching a student with math-related learning disabilities. Avoid memory overload. Assign manageable amounts of work as skills are learned. Build retention by providing review within a day or two of the initial learning of difficult skills. Provide supervised practice to prevent students from practicing misconceptions and “misrules.” Make new
