title: Evaluation of a numeracy intervention program focusing on basic numerical knowledge and conceptual knowledge: a pilot study.
abstract: The preliminary results of this study suggested that children with developmental dyscalculia benefit from a numeracy intervention program that focuses on basic numerical knowledge and conceptual knowledge. All children in the experimental group showed considerable and partly significant performance increases on all calculation components. Six children with developmental dyscalculia were trained individually and in small-group settings for a relatively short duration (one school semester). We argue that the positive intervention effects to a large extent are attributable to the explicit teaching of numerical domains that often have been found to be neglected in school mathematics.
authors.affiliation: University Children's Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria. liane.kaufmann@uklibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Liane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kaufmann
authors.forename: Pia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Handl
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thöny
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D016896:Treatment Outcome