Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Early intervention is crucial but there is a lack of acknowledgement of dyscalculia as being a learning disability in the same way as dyslexia is recognised. Early intervention happens but in DEIS schools resources and acknowledgement are not available to diagnose somebody with dyscalculia. My daughter has dyscalculia but I had to find funds to bring her to the Dyslexia Association of Ireland to find this out for myself and then fight for resources. There seems the lack of acknowledgement that dyscalculia is a thing and teachers believe the way mathematics is taught will fix it. Dyscalculia affects learning Irish, French and any other language because there is a correlation between dyscalculia and other subjects. Advocating through research and policy for the recognition of dyscalculia in the same way we as we recognise dyslexia might mean better resources would be put into schools to aid early intervention.