Early mathematics and language difficulties

This work is aimed at practitioners (teachers, therapists, parents) who are trying to help children with combined difficulties in language and early mathematics. Three questions provide the structure of the book: what are the specific learning characteristics of children with language difficulties?

What are the critical points where such characteristics lead to difficulties in the mathematical syllabus?

What can be done about them?Three of the features that frequently accompany children's language difficulties are discussed in detail: a weakness in symbolic understanding; a weakness in organizational skills; a memory weakness.

Practical suggestions are made, such as: the diverse use of number words in the child's pre-school experience; organizing mathematical word problems; learning to count. The book is in two parts. Part One raises the problems, looks at research and suggests methods.

Part Two picks up some of the methods and describes them in detail for the practitioner wanting to try them.