Most people, including teachers and the parents of children who have this problem, are not familiar with dyslexia dyscalculia. Nevertheless, the World Health Organization has recognized dyslexia dyscalculia as a developmental disorder, affecting approximately one in twenty people.

To put in simply, dyscalculia is somewhat like dyslexia for numbers. There are four categories of dyslexia dyscalculia: procedural, semantic retrieval, number fact and visuospatial.

Despite all this, dyslexia dyscalculia in a student is not as obvious as failing in grades. A child may have all these problems and still get A’s in her math class. It is not always easy to diagnose this problem especially if the student does well in her other subjects.

Some of the common symptoms of dyslexia dyscalculia are described below:

# Difficulty telling time: This gets demonstrated in a class of young children being taught to tell the time.

# Difficulty with time concepts: If you asked a person – child or adult affected with dyscalculia what time it was three hours and fifteen minutes ago, he/she would be unable to give you the answer

# Difficulty doing math in the head

# Difficulty with direction

# Difficulty following step by step instructions

# Difficulty reading sheet music: A young person with musical talent can easily reproduce a piece played on the piano by her teacher, by watching her and listening to her, but she will fail to do so if asked to read from a sheet of musical notations.

These are some of the common symptoms of dyslexia dyscalculia, and their magnitude may vary in different individuals.