How would I go about getting my child tested independently for dyscalculia?

[lovecheese]

Have been reading up on it and it fits my DD to a tee. Has anybody done this and if so, how?

Thanks.

[mrz]

www.dyscalculia.me.uk/testing.html

www.senmagazine.co.uk/articles/89-dyscalculia-does-testing-help.html

[lovecheese]

Thanks mrz, just had a quick look at the first link and the quick test thereon; I think DD could say yes to most of the questions. Will talk to her later about it. Ho hum.

[sahs1969]

I have been told my the Spld Maths base that come in to give dd 1-1 maths that dyscalculia is not what she has but a specific learning difficulty in Maths-she was tested last Sep as we were going to Tribunal and thank goodness they tested her as she really was so far behind and it has made school do something about it-finally after 3 years of us telling them she is not making progress.
She is now in Yr 5 but is doing Yr 1 /2 maths.
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[lovecheese]

Do you mind me asking what level she is working at, sahs1969? Glad to hear you are making progress.

[scoobydont]

i am watching this with interest. my daughter is being seen by the educaional physcologist in may and i have asked that they test for dyscalculia. she is in yr4 and working at year 1 levels

[kissingfrogs]

I suspected I might have dyscalculia. I was always bottom in maths. I got my maths GCSE at the grand age of 40 and even then it was a huge struggle. I couldn't understand why I could not grasp basic maths. I would learn something one day only to have to completely relearn it from scratch again the next. It was as if it just couldn't stick in my memory. Strangely it made me so tired I'd have to sleep after every worksheet (!).

I did however grasp some maths easily (like algebraic equations, geometry), which is really wierd considering I cant even memorise my times-tables or accurately add/subtract (yet have numerous qualifications incl degree).

I did my GCSE by concentrating on the elements I could do, and by revising the bits I couldn't in the morning of the exam in the hope it would stay in my memory long enough to do the exam. I passed, just. Needless to say, if I had to sit the same exam the day after (or today) I would fail miserably.

My dd1, Yr2, is struggling on Yr1 maths. I can totally empathise.

[sahs1969]

My dd is now in Yr 5 and working at will get a 2c this summer....she has literally only just started picking up the very basics...number bonds, adding, subtracting, x2 table.....but because she was left to fall so far behind it really did knock her rock bottom when it came to confidence and it was almost as if she just hit a BLANK when it came to do with anything regarding Maths/numbers. Now she is having this specialist input (the Spld base come out x2 a month and sit with the TA to teach them the next lot of work) and then she has 1/2hr 1-1 a day with the TA-she is then reassessed at the end of every 2 months by the base.....and I am meeting with them when they get back to school to see what progress has been made.

Sadly I had been saying this to the SENCO for the past 3yrs but it took us to go to Tribunal to get her assessed and get this extra support.
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