| Life has its own shades. Some are born with silver | | | | in the genes, leading to this disability. |
| spoons in the mouth while some others work very | | | | There are several symptoms that confirm the |
| hard all through their life, to make even the simplest of | | | | presence of dyscalculia. The most visible and common |
| living. And there are still others, who are born to live | | | | one is poor affliction to mathematical calculations. A |
| with both the shades of life, mostly the latter part. Such | | | | person suffering from dyscalculia will generally have |
| are the people who are born with learning disability- | | | | difficulty in distinguishing the four common mathematical |
| Dyscalculia. | | | | signs: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This |
| People living with dyscalculia disability have very strong | | | | puts them in a difficulty to balance equations. Also they |
| language skills and their vocabulary is many a times | | | | are unable to differentiate between larger and smaller |
| better than the normal people. They are very creative | | | | numbers. For them, all numbers, say, 1, 5 or 8, are |
| and can excel in the field of science and geometry. | | | | similar, carrying the same value. |
| And their logic base is quite strong. But their excellence | | | | Besides this, dyscalculia-afflicted people are |
| simply slides off when it comes to handle formula | | | | predominantly absent-minded people. As a result of |
| based equations. | | | | which they are unable to keep a track of any work or |
| They find difficulty in performing calculations, counting | | | | activity that involves sequences or use of active |
| efficiently, or for that matter, performing whole of | | | | memory. For instance, such a person will find it difficult |
| mathematical calculations. But this does not mean that | | | | to remember the sequences of a dance set up. They |
| they are mentally retarded. A person who is suffering | | | | are also unable to recall the events that have |
| from the disability disorder like dyscalculia with no | | | | happened in the past because of short memory. They |
| doubts has normal intelligence levels. | | | | are also poor in remembering the rules of any game. |
| Well, dyscalculia is not a very common form of | | | | But the world is not finished here. A child with |
| disability. It is termed as disease of the absent-minded. | | | | dyscalculia needs proper training and assistance to |
| Recent Studies have shown that dyscalculia has | | | | overcome the disability. The parents as well as |
| gentical links. Therefore, many of the theories that | | | | teachers need to make efforts in the right direction. |
| were put worth in explaining the true cause of this | | | | Help child by making him use fingers, colored papers, |
| disability have been held void. Thus, there are chances | | | | diagrams, graph papers, colored pencils to differentiate |
| that if a father or mother is suffering from dyscalculia, | | | | the mathematical problems. Draw pictures or |
| then the progeny might also get afflicted. Scientists are | | | | flowcharts to explain the concepts and problem sums. |
| working harder in the direction of finding out the | | | | Apart from these, you can use several other methods |
| causes or the adverse chemical reactions that occur | | | | to train the child. |