[senco-forum] Dyscalculia tester

Yo, Nicholas.

There is an American product, called dyscalculia screener, at <http:// 
www.toolfactory.com/>  I found it by chance and do not know anything  
about it.  I did an IT course (LA funded) with NFER some years ago  
and they were certainly doing demo disks at the time.  Jill
On 6 Jun 2006, at 07:56, SCReed at castlebrae.edin.sch.uk wrote:

> 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.
>
>