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Anonymous
Hi Misswho23,
I thought of this before I responded to Al but he is not transposing numbers or making the types of errors that are common to that form of LD. I’m lucky enough to have an alphabet soup of learning disabilities in my spec ed classroom so I get to see everything that is out there in the LD world.
Al states he is ‘inserting’ entirely different numbers when he makes his errors (e.g., 1/2 versus 3/. There is no transposing of number positions at all. He is reading entirely different ones. My kids and I laugh when we see this happening when we’re reading because it’s always a reminder to us to sloooow way down and to stop and ask questions. We actually teach kids to try to predict when they’re reading what the next word will be. It’s a very common reading strategy but it can cause errors if you don’t stop and verify the info. Our brains do the same thing for numbers as they do for words. It moves faster than it should sometimes and gets us into trouble! Bah!