Re: Dyscalculia

[Margaret Clark <clark@uhdux2.dt.uh.edu>]

>  Sara and Co.  I am self-diagnosed as math-impaired.  Not really
> joking. It's always been a struggle for me, made more difficult by
> being an engineer's daughter.

Not a pretty picture, Jeanne -- I just spent a year trying to get an
engineer to take me seriously and finally gave up; he topped out at
thinking I was kind of cute and creative. Grrrrr....

> Please tell me what constitutes dyscalculia?  Is is stuff like reversing
> digits, writing 13 instead of 31?  I do that a lot, and of course it plays
> havoc with a 20 page spreadsheet on Lotus to do something like that.

Yes, it's stuff like that and more. I happened to have today spent
three hours in a testing psychologist's office and had the pleasure of
having him raise an eyebrow as though I was pulling his leg when I
couldn't answer the most basic arithmetic questions. I dazzled him
with my GRE scores which are bizarre -- 240 or something in math, 780
verbal -- said he'd never heard of such a thing. Well.

I'll know more in a few weeks about the results of my tests and will
pass on anything juicy and generally useful. In the meantime, I know
the list will have gifts for us.

>  I suspect others on the list would also like to know. This is a new
> term for me.  Jeanne Simpson csjhs@eiu.edu

Margaret Clark
clark@dt.uh.edu