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[quote=Anonymous]DC is in high school.  Dyscalculia diagnosed in Kindergarten.  Please do not fault yourself.  This disorder was only ‘discovered’ in 1990 by Brian Butterworth at U of London.  The trick here is to help the next generation (one way is to give to the Journal of Numerical Cognition).  Dyslexia was discovered in the 1920s and look how many dyslexics fill our prison systems… look how many public schools IGNORE dyslexia.  As a professor told us — a dyscalculia school is probably 30 years away given the state of dyslexia remediation.

You will NOT find any school that truly ‘gets’ this.  DC was accepted into a noted dyslexia school (dyscalculia is comorbid with dyslexia) but even they felt they could not fully ‘support’ student.  (Basically get a tutor).  50,000 grand a year and they STILL were — get a tutor.  There are a LOT of charlatans out there but all is not lost.

You will need to get a tutor who focuses on multi-sensory methods.  ASDEC is a decent start and they are in Rockville.  Read the book Learn Better by Ulrich Boser — your child needs to basically understand how the hardware of the brain works - so they can work on compensating.  Avoid places like Arrowsmith Program that claim to have cognitive science behind them — but never truly publish any negative reports — so they can expand their expensive program to schools.  Stick to following folks like Dr Eden at Georgetown who is moving into dyscalculia research (she is the foremost expert on MRIs imaging and dyslexia).  Stick to solid Tier 1 curricula (Jump Math from Canada is excellent)

You can advocate all you want but a place like MCPS does not have smart enough people in the organization to even begin to tackle this complex issue.  Flat out truth. In fairness to them we need more cognitive research. So stop listening to neighbors who argue you are ‘wasting your money’ in private school.  I believe smaller class size helps students who fit these profiles.

Public school is NOT better for disabilities — frankly an IEP is an expensive piece of paper.  No more, no less.  We did public school (left in disgust) homeschool for a year, private school and then a small public — and its working with tutoring three times a week.  I wish you all the best of luck![/quote]

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