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About DySc

The DySc screener and recommended interventions are brought to you by TouchMath, a multisensory math program that makes who struggle, as well as those diagnosed with dyscalculia. Learn more at touchmath.com

Meet the academic experts and read our whitepaper to learn more about the research behind the DySc screener.

The Unaccounted for Disability

Dyscalculia is a learning disability that affects one’s ability to learn mathematics, as compared to same age peers who receive identical instruction. It may cause difficulty with counting, working memory for numbers, ability to recognize patterns, time, sense of direction, estimation of distance and volume, math facts, and procedures. Dyscalculia is a lifelong condition that can impact academic and economic progress as well as self-esteem.

Dyscalculia can be classified as a disability under both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which may qualify them to receive accommodations in school via an IEP.

The DySc screener includes key questions to help identify weaknesses in four key components, helping to provide evidence for an official diagnosis from a qualified professional.

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Common Signs of Dyscalculia

While research on this math learning disability is still decades behind where it should be, we do have a better understanding of the common signs of dyscalculia. Students with dyscalculia may exhibit one or more of the symptoms:

•Difficulty developing number and quantity (number sense and base ten)

•Problems with place value, transposing numbers, understanding arithmetical operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing)

•Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulas, and sequences

•Inability to memorize numerical facts

•Inconsistent results in calculation

•Struggles performing mental math

•Counting on one’s fingers after expected age/grade

•Difficulty estimating time, distance and volume

•Difficulty using analog clocks and maps

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TouchMath Can Help Students with Dyscalculia

TouchMath is an evidence based, multisensory approach to mathematics that can help students when other learning solutions fail. If a student suffers from dyscalculia, they can still succeed in mathematics.

•TouchMath focuses on all areas of mathematics (basic arithmetic operations, fact retrieval, word problems) via the processing of numbers and quantities. Our entire program is built on CRA (concrete-representational-abstract) and uses the abstract numeral as a multisensory manipulative.

•The complete product offering from TouchMath offers visual reminders of rules, formulas, and sequences with the supplemental posters and visual prompts in the problems. This helps students with dyscalculia better grasp math rules and formulas.

•The TouchMath curriculum allows students to have more opportunities to practice areas where they are struggling, which is necessary to embed skills and concepts in long term memory.

•Each TouchMath unit is supported by skip counting, backwards counting, TouchPoints, and/or music as additional instructional or learning strategies to support the student with age-respectful content.

•All pages of the TouchMath program are kept clean and simple, which helps with the suppression of distracting stimuli. Our digital intervention tool, TouchMath Pro, even allows you to select the number of problems per page.

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