[senco-forum] Dyscalculia tester

Yo, Nicholas.
                  Alas, the NFER is, as far as I'm aware, the only software
which covers dyscalculia. It consists of a set of sub-tests and is as boring
and unimaginative as the companion dyslexia screener which they produce.
There is a section on the Stroop effect (google for that, because it's a
long explanation). The city for which I work gave a blanket issue of the
dyslexia and dyscalculia tests just at the point when I was getting folk
here to invest in the nice dyslexia screener software, whose name I've
totally forgotten due to depression and hopelessness.I'm sure Stuart Lucas
will put me right on that! I would also Google for Steve Chinn, who runs a
private dyslexia school down in Somerset. He is a major authority on
dyscalculia and did us all the service of raising its profile.
                         Won't NFER give you a demo? The whole can usually
be done in the space of a 45 min lesson with the occasional prompt to get to
the next subtest. Interestingly enough, while we have found several
near-miss dyslexics with the other software, we haven't spotted any
dyscalculics. As far as I know, some dyscalculic pupils have something
called Gerstmann's syndrome (finger agnosia) - another spate of Googling for
you - whereby when a finger is tapped, the child is unable to identify which
finger it is.

Let us know how you get on

Sandie Reed

Edinburgh's leery side.