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🙈 How confident do you feel diagnosing & treating acalculia?
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Hey Reader, What did you learn in school about acalculia? If you're like me, it wasn't much. 😳 Numbers communicate a lot of meaning, and math relies on cognitive skills like working memory and reasoning. It’s well within our role as speech-language pathologists to help our patients use numbers effectively. 🤓 To fill in the gaps we never learned, we’ve put together a blog all about acalculia to help you understand, assess, and treat this common condition. 🙌
We didn’t stop at the blog. We also created the Tactus Numeracy Screener to help you spot acalculia during assessments or when patients want to work on number skills. It’s one of 100+ printable handouts in the Virtual Rehab Center, along with a math strategies handout, a blog summary, and a What Is Acalculia? patient education PDF. Inside the Virtual Rehab Center, you’ll also find 3 practical number treatments. These support patients with acalculia and anyone working on working memory, reasoning, or processing speed. Our newest interactive treatment is Mental Math: Addition, a drill-based exercise with 14 levels, ranging from 2+3 to working-memory-intensive problems like 98+45+16. The hints show visuals, and the reports show average time per level so you can track improvements in both accuracy and speed. We also have two functional math treatments: Solving Time Problems and Solving Money Problems. Patients use hours/minutes and dollars/cents to solve word problems that replicate real-life situations, with hints to uncover the equation.
We’ve designed the Virtual Rehab Center to make best practices easy: evidence-based treatments, everything in one place, and free home practice for patients. You’ll save time, and I'm confident your patients will make faster progress. Try it free for 21 days with no risk. Let me know what you think! Happy holidays, -Megan P.S. This year, we've published 10 blogs in the What SLPs Need to Know series. Catch up on what you've missed! We've got more for apraxia, anomia, memory, and more coming in 2026. Stay tuned! P.P.S. It's not too late to sign up to watch the FREE 2-day event Med SLP Learning Lab on December 6 & 7. See treatments in use and learn how to advocate. Earn 1.2 advanced-level ASHA CEUs for a small fee or track your own professional development hours. |
Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
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