Math Tutoring Services for Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

Those who struggle with reading, writing and spelling sometimes struggle with math:

counting on fingers to add and subtract, reversing numbers, difficulty understanding place value, and, trouble grasping concepts of time and money or abstract language.

Dyscalculia is often referred to as “math dyslexia.” Sometimes dyslexia and dyscalculia occur together but, not always. Whether there is a diagnosis of dyscalculia or not, if one is struggling with math in general specific intervention and tutoring may be needed. 

I offer math tutoring services by teaching Semple Math. I completed teacher training in this program approximately 15 years ago and have seen much success with this program for my students.

Semple Math is an ungraded, multisensory, basic skills program designed to help students with committing basic facts to memory, number reversals, number alignment, money concepts, as well as the abstract language of math in word problems.

This program was developed for children with dyslexia and dyscalculia but, can also be used for beginning, high-risk and/or remedial students who have difficulty learning. It covers all basic math skills from teaching a young child to print numerals correctly to teaching older students multiplication and long division.

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Activities in this tutoring program include carefully designed dialogues that lead students through a task analysis of each skill presented. Teaching strategies expose students to experiential stories, familiar images, mnemonic associations, music, rhythm, and rhyme aid memory and make the abstractions of mathematics concrete in a fun and unique way.

Semple Math tutoring uses unique mnemonic clues to teach skills, it builds skills in a unique sequence. The sequence helps assure that skills, once learned, will be retained and applied successfully. because of the sequence, all students, regardless of age or grade begin Semple Math tutoring at Level One. Older students often move more quickly than their younger counterparts but follow the same path.