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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do we really have clinical diagnoses for everything? This is a little ridiculous. As Barbie famously said, “math is hard.”[/quote]

Math is hard, but dyscalculia is also real.

My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD and dysgraphia in 1st grade.  She was at a private school that had learning specialists who worked one on one win her during the week.  However, she always struggled with math even when working with the specialist.  She would do all of her homework except for math, sit and stare at her paper in class, and not understand even when the teacher would explain it.  She had to have testing redone a few years ago for her accommodations and it showed she also has dyscalculia. She will copy a problem down from the board at school and flip the numbers.  She does the same thing when writing her answers.  She said that when she looks at the numbers it’s like they “vibrate”.  She has had a math tutor for 3 years now and we moved her to The McLean  school which has been amazing.

To the poster who made the comment quoted, these are real diagnosis’s and they are genetic.  I was showing my daughter my homework from when I was her age (why my mom saved it, I’ll never know!), and I was making the same mistakes that she was.  In 6th grade I was spelling ruined “Ruwend” and writing very short, incomplete sentences.  I was at a high reading level, but I struggled to write.  I was diagnosed with ADHD at 13, but I bet today I would also be diagnosed with dysgraphia and dyscalculia.  [/quote]

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