TPP 291: What is Dyslcalculia? Laura Jackson on Her Family's Journey With a Math Disability
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is dyscalculia and how common is it in schools?
The special ed department at the school hadn't even heard of Discalculia. Even though it's between three and eight percent of the population has it. So it kinda averages out to you know, we say five percent, one in twenty kids. So one in every classroom. Has a dyscalculic adult or child in there? But they didn't know much about it. And so I started feeding the special ed teacher like resources I was finding online. I was just I think that was my full time job at that point. I'm researching online.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. This is the last new episode of this winter-spring season. And to close it out, I'm sharing my conversation with Laura Jackson, a mom, writer, and advocate. Laura helps families struggling with dyscalculia move from confusion and overwhelm to understanding and connection. So Laura's passion is to provide advocacy, coaching, and encouragement for overwhelmed parents and discouraged children who feel alone in their journey with dyscalculia. She also wants to create a safe place where parents can understand and appreciate their child's uniqueness and where connection and empathy and meaning can be made in the midst of this challenging learning disability.
In this conversation, Laura shares insights from her new book, Discovering Dyscalculea, One Family's Journey with a Math Disability, which was inspired by her own family's journey of getting her daughter's diagnosis, how they navigated working with the school, and finding strategies that work for her beyond her education. Laura also shared many, many strategies and many resources for parents who want to learn more about dyscalculea and the early signs that they can look out for if they suspect their child might be struggling with it. This is the first episode we've done on Discalculia, so I'm very excited to be sharing this today. And just a quick thank you again. Thanks for being a part of the Tilt community.
Thanks for listening. Thanks for helping us reach that four million downloads milestone for this show. And for celebrating six years of Tilt Parenting with me. And I'll be back with more new episodes soon. But of course, there's one more to listen to for now, and that is the following conversation on Discalculea with Laura Jackson. So here you go and enjoy the show. Hey Laura, welcome to the podcast.
Thanks, Debbie. It's fun to be here chatting with you.
This is gonna be just a lovely conversation and I'm honored to be your first podcast interview. Your book is important and I really think fills a gap in, you know, what's available for parents. And so when I found out you were writing it and, you know, we've been in touch for a while, I was really excited to to bring you on to talk about it. But usually I have guests tell me their personal why and all of that kind of stuff. But your personal why is really your story. So I would love if you could just give us a little bit about your story. As we were discussing before I hit record, this wasn't your plan to be writing this book, I'm sure, when you became a parent and go down this journey. So can you tell us a little bit about your story and how you came to be doing this?
Yeah, that's that's funny. I once heard a therapist say that Our values in life come out of the pace places of joy and places of pain. And so I think about that when I think about how the book came about and even just my work with parents who have children with dyskalculia. And when my daughter was nine years old, she was in third grade and that was Uh, when I really started wondering why she was struggling so much in math. And She had been struggling previously and looking back, knowing what I know now about dyscalculia, I maybe would have recognized it sooner, but I really didn't as a parent. I thought You know, all kids learn differently and they're at their own pace and I wasn't stressed out about the things that were happening so far, but in third grade
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is dyscalculia and how common is it in schools?
0:00–5:51
2
How did Laura first recognize the signs of dyscalculia in her daughter?
5:51–11:16
3
What steps did Laura take to get a formal evaluation for her child?
11:16–16:23
4
Why do some schools hesitate to suggest a dyscalculia evaluation?
16:23–20:44
5
What resources and researchers does Laura recommend for parents?
20:44–26:24
6
What practical home strategies help a child with dyscalculia learn math?
26:24–31:21
7
How can visual tools like timers and measuring spoons support dyscalculic learners?
31:21–36:23
8
Where can listeners find Laura’s book, online class, and additional support links?
36:23–41:51
Speakers
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