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Although the pace of research into dyslexia beyond reading proceeds very slowly, there is some welcome recent research into some of the math challenges that are associated with dyslexia from the University of California. Some of the key findings of the study: – development of a new test – a Mathematical Cognition Battery – 66% or 2/3 of dyslexic students had math difficulties – even those dyslexic students who were identified as having “no challenges in mathematics” , had weaker math approximation abilities than the typically developing group – the battery assessed students on 4 mathematical areas: number processing, arithmetical procedures, arithmetic fact retrieval, and geometrical abilities – dyslexic students who scored poorly on number processing (13%) , tended to score poorly on […]
