Bitesize Guides

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Our Bitesize Guides were created to make complex conditions and differences easier to understand for parents, educators, and the wider community.

Whether you’re a parent looking for answers, a teacher wanting to better support a child in your classroom, or a school seeking helpful resources to share with families, these guides provide clear, practical information in an easy-to-read format. Covering
what is?, signs of, how it feels for the child, supporting a child at home/at school, UK assessment route and key takeaway.

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Making sense of decimal place value

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Do the learners you teach struggle with decimal place value? Check out this video, in the link below, with Dr Fiona Campbell with loads of amazing tips to help decode decimals for learners with dyscalculia!

What if the problem is not the student?

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What concerns me is that we place the burden of adaptation on the student. Rather than questioning whether an outdated education model remains fit for purpose, we ask young people to bend themselves around it. Those who can, are labelled successful. Those who can’t, are often left questioning their abilities. The impact is lifelong.

DyscalcBattery is changing the way dyscalculia screeners work.

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First of its kind this battery is designed for field deployment in low-resource and multilingual settings, schools without reliable internet, laptops without admin privileges, and researchers without licensing budgets. This project addresses a major gap in learning disability research, where most widely used dyscalculia screeners are proprietary commercial products that require expensive licenses or certified training to use.

What kind of teaching do dyscalculic learners need?

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CRA Instructional Sequence: , Abstract instructional sequence is an approach that moves students from using concrete manipulatives to representational drawings to abstract numbers when learning new concepts and is a best practice for all learners. Dyscalculic learners will need to experience this sequence multiple times and gradually, when developing new skills and understandings.