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[quote=Anonymous]I feel for you OP.  In same boat.  DC is heading into senior year and it’s been a long road.  Tutoring was often simply an emotional support exercise.

Bottom line: there is no specialized school for dyscalculia as there is no real remediation.  The closest bench research success is Cohen-kadosh at Oxford with his direct stimulation experiments.  Basically 9 volts to the left parietal lobe where number sense was found to be ‘present’ in MS patients who had it and lost it with disorder. (Ie they held math jobs like accounting their whole life).

Research was suspended for ethical concerns - brain experiments in children with uncertainty of unintended consequences proved too high risk but showed 30% gain in math - so perhaps suggest this course when your student reaches 18.

My advice to you will sound odd on this private school board: Frederick County public schools.  They have solid curriculum, caring instruction, and year long courses for slower students. It was a lifesaver (and just a nice community)

Also please, please read and support the Journal of Numerical Cognition.  This is the journal of record for dyscalculia.  We need dyscalculia schools like Jemicy and Lab for dyslexia.

Let’s not let another generation suffer.

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