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dyscalculia

dyscalculia

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Search complete. 14 mentions across 5 episodes found for "dyscalculia".

Oct 27, 2026

speaker_0HOST
1:10
De manière imagée, c'est un peu le disque dur des mathématiques dans notre tête.
speaker_0HOST
1:14
Chez une personne dyscalculique, cette zone présente des particularités de fonctionnement.
speaker_0HOST
1:19
Elle a du mal à activer ce qu'on appelle la subitisation.
speaker_0HOST
1:23
Donc la subitisation, c'est la capacité de reconnaître instantanément de petites quantités, euh, jusqu'à quatre objets, sans avoir besoin de les pointer du doigt un par un.
speaker_0HOST
1:34
Un dyscalculique devra souvent compter un, deux, trois, quatre avec son doigt, même s'il n'y a que quatre billes sur la table.
speaker_0HOST
1:44
Donc cela crée quand même une grande difficulté pour comprendre, euh, la notion de grandeur et de quantité.
speaker_0HOST
1:49
Donc y a d'abord la ligne numérique mentale.
speaker_0HOST
1:53
Si on demande à un enfant ou un adulte, hein, même, dyscalculique de placer le nombre huit sur une ligne allant de zéro à dix, il peut le placer en fait complètement au hasard, par exemple juste à côté du deux, parce que la distance entre les nombres ne fait pas de sens pour la personne.
Holly MurphyHOST
16:48
I don't even know if I'm saying that right.
Holly MurphyHOST
16:49
Dyscalculia, dyscalculia, whatever.
Holly MurphyHOST
16:53
So, and like I've said to you before, like I have OCD and I had that since I was young.
Holly MurphyHOST
17:00
So my attendance was kind of messed up.
NicoleHOST
9:00
So you can imagine that this brings with it strong reluctance and frustration when facing writing assignments at school and at home.
NicoleHOST
9:09
Now, another type of dyslexia is dyscalculia.
NicoleHOST
9:12
Dyscalculia is a neurodevelopmental learning disorder that makes it hard to understand math concepts, process numbers, and perform calculations.
NicoleHOST
9:23
Now, another terminology you may hear from educators is OHI.
NicoleHOST
9:28
And OHI is other health impaired.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:30
But wait, it's not dyscalculia.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:33
It's actually dyscalculia.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:36
I only learned that a couple months ago and admittedly I was disappointed because I thought Dyscalculia sounded like a super cool vampire that maybe just had some difficulties with numbers.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:51
So the correct term is Dyscalculia and it steals all the potential jokes that I could have made of that vampire.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:03
Knowing the statistics on learning disabilities Hypothetically, or for real, if vampires do in fact exist, I'm not trying to get political or species-ist, human-centric-ist.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:21
If vampires exist, technically one in ten of them could have a learning disability.
Sarah Ann MacklinHOST
4:53
You've got dyspraxia.
Sarah Ann MacklinHOST
4:55
Dyscalcula, I think, is another one.
Sarah WarleyGUEST
4:57
Hmm, dyscalculia, yep.
Sarah Ann MacklinHOST
4:58
That one.

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