Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Mathematics

Written by a teacher with many years' experience of teaching
mathematics to primary school dyslexic and dyspraxic children with
a wide range of abilities, this book is designed to be a practical
teaching guide. It offers detailed guidance and specific teaching
suggestions to all specialist teachers, support teachers, classroom
teachers and parents who either directly teach mathematics to
dyslexic and dyspraxic children or who support the mathematics
teaching programmes of dyslexic or dyspraxic children.

Although the book has grown out of teaching experience it is
also informed by widely acknowledged contemporary and international
research, which explores the cognitive aspects of learning
mathematics and tries to understand why it is that some children
fail to learn mathematics.

Many of the teaching principles described in the text have
specific and quite far-reaching implications. The theoretical
arguments should therefore also be of interest to special needs
co-ordinators, heads of maths departments, head teachers or other
professionals who are responsible for designing or modifying the
maths learning programmes of children with special learning and
maths difficulties. In more general terms, the book hopes to
contribute to the broad discussion of the cognitive features and
educational needs of dyslexic and dyspraxic children.