Introduction/ 1. Getting Started/ 2. The Dyscalculia Assessment/ 3.Interpreting the Assessment/ 4. Games and Activities/ Appendices/ Templates/ Further reading and resources
A complete assessment tool for investigating maths difficulties in children, this book also provides advice for implementing the findings into teaching plans.
Jane Emerson is Director of Emerson House, a centre for dyscalculia, dyslexia and dyspraxia. Jane is an experienced teacher of children with dyscalculia and a teacher trainer for courses on dyscalculia assessment and teaching, and a lecturer on dyscalculia. Patricia Babtie is an SEN teacher who works with children and adults with maths learning difficulties. Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London
Featured in 'Read These' section in Times Education Supplement, TES
Wales and TES Scottland, 18th June 2010
‘This book is essential to anyone working with children with
dyscalculia, providing a comprehensive guide to individual
assessment. It helps special educators to profile areas of strength
and weakness in the different components of mathematics, connecting
assessment directly to remedial instruction. The text is easy to
read, and takes the teacher through the nuts and bolts of the
assessment process from start to finish.' Anna J. Wilson, Lecturer
in Learning , University of Canterbury and Honorary Research
Associate, University of Auckland, New Zealand
'A comprehensive support for anyone teaching children with
significant mathematics difficulties of any kind. It provides an
accessible assessment tool with a detailed guide to children's
possible responses, based on current research about significant
aspects of knowledge and understanding. There is guidance on what
to do about the difficulties identified, using a structured
approach to learning mathematics which emphasises understanding and
reasoning, practical models and talk...This is an extremely useful
resource for those working with underachieving children. It
combines a direct way of identifying key difficulties with a
tried-and-tested teaching approach.' Sue Gifford, PGCE Programme
Convenor (Primary), Roehampton University, London, UK
‘A wonderfully comprehensive and clear guide to assessing and then
remediating dyscalculic difficulties... I am confident that it will
prove invaluable to me in my work.'
*Dyslexia Contact*
"This book is a wonderfully comprehensive and clear guide to
assessing and then remediating dyscalculic difficulties." Sue
Lilley, Specialist Teacher
Both authors draw on their extensive knowledge as teachers of
special needs and have compiled a very worthwhile resource designed
to identify in detail the strengths and weaknesses of an individual
who may be struggling to learn mathematics...
*Nasen Special*
This is an excellent resource, and I would recommend it for
purchase to place in a school's special education library, where
many teachers can reference the book to deal with students with
intractable problems. Or, a school might decide that one special
education teacher would be the "math specialist", who would assess
students with serious math disabilities using the assessments, and
providing remediation ideas for the child's special educator.
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Really this should be titled 'what you always wanted to know about
dyscalculia but didn't know what or how to ask...' - At last a book
that not only tells you about the problem - but also what to do
about it and gives you the tools to do something about it! Has
invaluable resources and appendices - simply miles ahead of what I
was using up to now. If like me you think that dyscalculia is 20-30
years behind dyslexia - this assessment book and accompanying
brings it bang up to date. You need to spend some time reading
through the guide part it particularly if you are new to the
problem or SEN children - but guess what - this is a complex matter
that deserves some time spent on it and time spent with this book
will pay big dividends. It is simply packed with both academic
rigor and common sense- a rare thing in education. A. Coomes
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