Dyscalculia is a type of arithmetic impairment caused by the brain of the affected person. Due to the dominant shift of the hemispheres of the brain, people with dyscalculia are increasingly at home in the right, creative hemisphere of the brain when they are thinking.
The basic problem corresponds to the problem of dyslexia, the weakness in reading and writing.
Although the dyscalculic is a creative, creative “thinker”, he may have difficulties in the left hemisphere of the brain where analysis, arithmetic, spelling, logic, etc. are concerned.
Since the dyscalculic has an intuitive, multi-layered and pictorial thinking as a base, he needs a broad offer on many levels in the therapy, so that he can build himself one or the other ” mnemonic bridge “, so that his brain hemispheres harmonize themselves and so left and right brain hemispheres come into agreement and co-operate effectively.