Math Learning Disability

For the student who struggles with math, learning disabilities are often the unseen, underlying cause of the struggle.  The inability to visualize images from word problems often leads to failures perceived as a math learning disability.  In reality, the failure is due to a weakness in visualization skill, not in computational ability. Underlying weakness in important skills such as sound recognition, blending, and segmenting, visualization and visual image manipulation, short term and working memory efficiency, and logical associations, all make math hard or even impossible.  If the struggle is written off to a math learning disability, the student will never overcome the problem.  If the underlying skill weakness is identified and corrected through appropriate cognitive training, the student will have a chance to succeed at math and other academic challenges.

Don't let catch-all classifications such as math learning disability rob your child of the chance for a life of faster, easier learning. Most learning struggles, whether they be a math learning disability or some other manifestation, will respond positively to appropriately designed and administered cognitive training.  Don't let a math learning disability cloud your child's future. Take action now.  Test your child's underlying learning skills.  What you now believe to be a math learning disability, is most likely a simple but devastating learning skill weakness.  These weaknesses can be overcome once discovered.  Correct testing and well designed cognitive training can help your child be free from the symptoms identified as a math learning disability.