Experts from the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast discovered that many youngsters suffer from an undiagnosed developmental condition which affects their ability to learn maths.
The academics, led by Dr Kinga Morsanyi, studied the maths performance of nearly 2,500 primary children over a number of years.
They estimated the number of pupils with dyscalculia to be similar to those with dyslexia, but found that only one of the children who took part in the research had received an official diagnosis prior to the study – compared to 108 who had already been diagnosed with dyslexia. The study itself identified 112 children who were likely to have dyscalculia.
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