Dyscalculia
- Dyscalculia is a difficulty in understanding and processing numbers.
- It may be inherited from birth or it may be the result of a brain injury or stroke later in life.
- Someone with dyscalculia may:
- Have trouble with calculations
- Struggle to remember arithmetic facts
- Find it hard to count
- Children and young people can be affected by dyscalculia regardless of their age and education level. Dyscalculia often occurs alongside other learning difficulties, medical conditions and mathematics anxiety.