Voorbeelden van dyscalculia

• For example, in procedural dyscalculia, despite pervasive impairment in arithmetical procedures, knowledge of numerical facts can have 95% accuracy.

• Children with spina bifida are more likely than their typically developing peers to have dyscalculia.

• Neuroimaging studies of mathematical learning disabilities are still rare but dyscalculia is an area of increasing interest for neuroscience researchers.

• Indeed, the few studies carried out on children with dyscalculia only point to a brain level impairment of the number sense system.

• Scientists have yet to understand the causes of dyscalculia.

• On the other hand, people with dyscalculia have difficulty automatically identifying numbers with magnitudes, but not letters and with phonemes.

• Brain imaging in children exhibiting symptoms of dyscalculia show less gray matter or less activation in the intraparietal regions stimulated normally during mathematical tasks.

• Dyscalculia can result in children falling significantly behind in school, regardless of having normal intelligence levels.