Background: Arithmetical skills are essential to the effective exercise of citizenship in a
numerate society. How these skills are acquired, or fail to be acquired, is of great importance …

Numbers are present in every part of modern society and the human capacity to use
numbers is unparalleled in other species. Understanding the mental and neural …

Forty-five children with mathematics learning disabilities, with and without comorbid reading
disabilities, were compared to 45 normally achieving peers in tasks assessing basic …

Newly updated, Gavin Reid's best-selling handbook remains an essential resource for those
hel** dyslexic individuals of all ages, from preschoolers to adults in the workplace …

Although it is often assumed that abilities that reflect basic numerical understanding, such as
numerical comparison, are related to children's mathematical abilities, this relationship has …

Mathematical cognition involves a variety of complex mental activities such as identification
of relevant quantities, encoding or transcribing those quantities into an internal …

This study examined the contributions of the different components of the working memory
(WM) model to a range of mathematical skills in children, using measures of WM function …

In the present article, we provide a critical overview of the emerging field of
'neuroeducation'also frequently referred to as 'mind, brain and education'or 'educational …

Researchers of mathematics learning disability (MLD) commonly use cutoff scores to
determine which participants have MLD. Some researchers apply more restrictive cutoffs …

Claire is an 8-year-old girl in second grade who participated in a remediation study for
dyscalculia that we recently conducted. Despite an average IQ and good motivation and …