Dyscalculia or Math disability is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics. It is akin to dyslexia and can include confusion about math symbols. Dyscalculia can also occur as the result of some types of brain injury. Recent research suggests that dyscalculia can also occur developmentally, as a genetically-linked learning disability which affects a person’s ability to understand, remember, or manipulate numbers or number facts (e.g., the multiplication tables, clock time, etc.). Dyscalculia sometimes prefer to the term “Arithmetic Difficulties” (AD) to refer to calculation and number memory deficits.
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