I’m not sure that it would be accurate to say that there is a greater number of Deaf people with Dyscalculia than the rest of the population… but I do think we are seeing an increasing number of people who are being identified with this learning disability, simply because we are becoming more aware of it.

I do think that people with Dyscalculia need a different approach to learning things, and that education itself needs to be flexible enough to recognize that not everyone does learn the same way. Creating “cookie cutter” teachers who have all be taught to utilize the same approach in instructing their students hardly appears to be the appropriate way to address the issue. It would seem that encouraging a diversity of individual teaching styles is the best way to better meet the needs of the diversity of students one can find in our schools…each of them coming from a diversity of backgrounds, and each of them with their own individual talents and skills.

In my experience, Americans have it easier with testing than pupils in other countries. Go to Asia and see how much testing, memorizing, etc., pupils over there do.

I certainly didn’t know what I wanted to do at the age of 10-11…and I would hate to be put under such pressure of trying to decide if I wanted to go to prep school at that age.

I think that’s just as bad as standardized tests or setting up arbitary time schedules/goal schedules…in fact I remember watching a documentary not too long ago about Japan going through very similiar procedure that Germany does, and in Japan, the suicide rate among these students is extremely high, because their parents place huge pressure on their children to do well on such life-determining tests.

“BOLDLY GO!”

Aim high, young deaf math students! Aim high!