[senco-forum] Difficulty with maths

I have been asked to carry out an assessment on a girl who is having great

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Numicon works through pattern to the number system to calculating.

Philippa

On Feb 4, 2008 10:48 PM, <Janrolnick at aol.com> wrote:

> I have been asked to carry out an assessment on a girl who is having great
> difficulty with maths. I tested her using the dyscalculia screener but the
> results concluded that she was not dyscalculic but had difficulty with
> maths. We
> knew this already! As she had literacy difficulties in Y3 I thought she
> may
> have  undiagnosed dyslexia so have carried out a dyslexia assessment but
> not
> much has  come to light. She achieved a high score on a BPVS but a low
> score on
> a Ravens  Matrices (between 10th and 25th percentile). Her reading score
> was
> high on a  NARA and average on a Schonell. Fine on sound blending and
> short
> term memory.  Can anyone suggest what else I could do?
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> Janice Rolnick
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