Webinar | On Demand: Dyscalculia - Identifying Maths Difficulties

Price

Original price: 39.95 AUD per person.

About This Webinar

All students can struggle with maths from time to time, but in some students this difficulty can persist despite the effort and practice they put in. While there are many reasons students may find maths a challenge, persistent difficulties may be a sign of dyscalculia – a Specific Learning Disorder that causes difficulties with understanding numbers.

This one-hour Learning Links webinar with experienced teacher, Dr Samantha Hornery will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to dyscalculia and maths difficulties. You will apply an adapted version of the familiar and well-researched concepts of the Simple View of Reading to provide a model to help you identify dyscalculia and other maths difficulties in your students. You’ll gain a better understanding of why maths can be so hard for your students and practical strategies to help them build confidence and fluency in the four operations – whether they have a diagnosis or not.

Why You Should Get This Webinar

Although dyscalculia is thought to be as common as dyslexia, affecting around one or two students in every Australian classroom, there is far less known about this learning disorder. Learning Links has over 50 years of experience supporting children with learning difficulties. Their professionals provide specialist education support to children with dyscalculia every day in Learning Links' centres, online and in their school-based programs. Learning Links wants to share their broad knowledge of dyscalculia to build awareness and understanding of how it affects learning and provide easy-to-implement strategies to support students to build skills in foundation maths.

What You'll Learn

• How to identify what dyscalculia is (and isn’t) in your students
• How to identify other factors that may contribute to maths difficulties
• Simple tips to help students with dyscalculia to build confidence and fluency in the maths facts
• Learning Links’ four-part approach to teaching the maths facts so they stick
• Which intervention programs and resources can best support students with dyscalculia and maths difficulties

Who Should Get This Webinar

• Primary school teachers who are supporting children to learn foundation maths skills
• High school teachers who are looking for strategies to support students who aren't making expected progress in maths
• Learning support teachers who are providing targeted intervention for students who have difficulty in maths