Dyskalkyli hos elever i grundskola och gymnasium

Sammanfattning: This paper presents the results of a study of dyscalculia. It is a retrospective archival study implemented with a deductive approach. On the basis of established research and theory 18 analytical categories were formulated, before a deductive thematic analysis of empirical material, consisting of journal data of 17 students investigated for dyscalculia, 14 girls (82.4%) and 3 boys (17.6%). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the concepts formulated in research on dyscalculia and actual mathematical difficulties as those found in practice of students at school. All pupils had early and long-term difficulties with mathematics, while not showing any difficulties in other subjects. Most have had an unsatisfactory learning environment. All had normal intelligence but difficulty with certain cognitive, self-regulatory and linguistic features. Difficulties persisted despite numerous and protracted relief efforts at school. The study highlights that some difficulties are more prominent than others in connection with dyscalculia. This applies particularly to working memory, automation, activity control, spatial functions, certain linguistic abilities, concentration, and executive functions. Pedagogical action adaptation had been completed for most of the students but did not show to have any noticible effect. One question that requires further research would be “ why adaptation does not give the desired effect.”