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A complete assessment tool for investigating maths difficulties in children, this book also provides advice for implementing the findings into teaching plans.The Dyscalculia Assessment is a tool for investigating pupils' numeracy abilities. It is designed to inform a personalised teaching programme for individuals or small groups of pupils who have difficulties with numbers. The assessment was devised at Emerson House, a specialist centre in London supporting pupils with difficulties in numeracy and literacy. The bestselling first edition of the book, written by Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie, was the winner of the ERA Best Special Educational Needs Resource 2011.This fully revised and updated second edition features a brand new design, making the step-by-step assessment even easier to navigate and use, wither by SENCOs or those with no specific special needs training, The suggested script for each stage of the investigation that runs alongside the photocopiable assessment sheets, make this book an extremely user-friendly, accessible teaching and learning resource.This book also includes:- an introduction to dyscalculia and co-occuring conditions- guidance on how to conduct the assessment, including tips on behaviours to look out for- information on the equipment you need and how to use it- instructions on how to interpret the results of each stage of the assessment and how to produce a personalised teaching plan- games and activities to engage the pupils and reinforce numeracy skills.The Dyscalculia Assessment is ideal for use with primary school children, but can easily be adapted for older students, and is invaluable for SENCOs, TAs, educational psychologists and mainstream teachers keen to support students with numeracy difficulties in their class.

This new book by authors Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie follows on from their award winning book, the Dyscalculia Assessment. Once careful assessment has identified the particular numeracy difficulties your pupils may have, the Dyscalculia Solution provides a practical teaching guide for addressing and solving those difficulties.The Dyscalculia Solution includes step-by-step instructions on how to teach pupils to use whole numbers by talking and reasoning about them, and communicating their thinking in a verbal, diagrammatic and written form. The book includes scripts to emphasise the importance of using the correct language to develop numerical thinking, as well as teaching objectives, activities and games which are important for fostering a positive attitude to numeracy. Each new concept builds on previous understanding so that new facts are derived by reasoning from known facts.The Dyscalculia Solution is ideal for use with primary school children, but can easily be adapted for older students, and is invaluable for SENCOs, TAs, educational psychologists and mainstream teachers, keen to support students with numeracy difficulties in their class.Accompanying materials in both print and electronic formats to support busy teachers by providing lesson plans and worksheets are available with this book.

An easy-to-use maths and dyscalculia assessment aimed at pupils aged between 6 to 18. Designed for everyone from maths teachers to SENCOS, specialist maths teachers, teaching assistants and parents working with young pupils and teenagers with suspected dyscalculia and maths difficulties. Differing from screener type assessments, this tool focuses on the key aspects of the foundation areas of maths. It then provides essential information for formulating effective teaching intervention plans. It also gives you data that can lead to an error analysis for each part of the assessment. There are two parts to the assessment: Form A and Form B, each containing an assessor booklet and a separate booklet for the child being assessed. This two-part assessment allows you to re-test the student after six months to see how effective the interventions have been and what progress your student has made.The assessment is made up of:· This assessment guide in book form, which includes:- An introduction to Dyscalculia and Maths Difficulties- Guidelines on how to administer the assessment guidance, and what to record- 19 sections ranging from basic number sense, counting, reading numbers, calculation and more advanced topics such as fractions, decimals and percentages- An outline of key features for the teaching intervention plan· Two separate downloadable complete tests (Form A and Form B) - these are available online for you to print