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[quote=Anonymous]My dyslexia/discalculia kid struggled all through school - he is now in college, so he made it! Yes, grades yo yo a lot and things can go south in an instant. It is really frustrating for everyone. Often the core deficit in kids with both dyslexia and discalculia is working memory. Everything slips away - the letters or words you just read, the numbers you are supposed to be multiplying, the formula you need. Of course it impacts history and science, too - the facts, definitions, etc leak away. It is emotionally crushing to the kid and leads to fatalism and lack of effort…which leads to more failure. You just have to keep plowing through.

However, the type of math tutoring can matter A LOT. Look up Marilyn’s Multisensory Math. She runs trainings for teachers and tutors plus summer sessions for kids, I think the main one is for algebra. She works with ASDEC a lot so you can probably find her workshops etc through their website, and I think they have a list of tutors trained by her. [/quote]

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