At London Trusted Therapy Harley Street, we offer comprehensive private dyscalculia assessments for children, young people, and adults, conducted by HCPC registered and BPS accredited educational psychologists. Our assessments are thorough, neurodiversity-affirming, and produce SASC-compliant written reports that are accepted by universities, employers, and Access to Work.
dyscalculia may manifest as persistent difficulty learning number facts such as times tables, significant struggle with mental arithmetic, difficulty understanding place value and numerical concepts, challenges with telling the time, managing money, or understanding fractions, and marked inconsistency between mathematical performance and ability in other subjects. Children with dyscalculia frequently develop significant maths anxiety — a secondary emotional response to repeated failure and confusion in numerical contexts — which can make assessment and support more complex.
In adults, dyscalculia may present as ongoing difficulty with financial management, budgeting, estimating quantities, reading timetables, calculating percentages, or performing mental arithmetic under pressure. Many adults with dyscalculia have chosen educational and career pathways specifically to avoid numerical demands, without ever understanding why numbers have always been so disproportionately difficult. In professional settings, dyscalculia can create specific challenges in roles that require numerical or data literacy — and a formal assessment provides the evidence needed to access appropriate support and adjustments.
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One of the most important aspects of dyscalculia assessment and support is disentangling dyscalculia from maths anxiety — and understanding how the two interact. Maths anxiety is an extremely common secondary response to dyscalculia, developing over years of numerical difficulty and frequent experience of failure, shame, and confusion in mathematical contexts. It can become so pervasive that it significantly impairs performance even when the underlying numerical processing difficulties are addressed — and it can mask the nature and extent of the underlying SpLD. Our educational psychologists are experienced in assessing both dyscalculia and co-occurring anxiety, and our reports address the psychological dimension of numerical difficulty alongside the cognitive profile. Where maths anxiety and related emotional difficulties would benefit from therapeutic support, our practice can provide this alongside or following the assessment.
Following your dyscalculia assessment, our team provides clear, practical recommendations tailored to your specific numerical learning profile — for educational institutions, employers, or your own personal planning. For children, recommendations typically address classroom accommodations, specialist teaching approaches, and strategies for managing maths anxiety alongside the numerical difficulties. For adults, recommendations address workplace adjustments, assistive technology, and practical strategies for managing numerical demands in daily and professional life. No GP referral is needed and appointments are typically available within one to two weeks.
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Yes — co-occurrence is common. Dyscalculia frequently presents alongside dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, and autism, and the combination of these profiles creates a complex and highly individual pattern of strengths and difficulties. Our educational psychologists are experienced in assessing complex, co-occurring neurodevelopmental presentations and will identify all significant specific learning differences within a single comprehensive assessment.
Adults with a formal dyscalculia diagnosis are entitled to request reasonable adjustments from their employer under the Equality Act 2010. These might include extended time for tasks involving numerical processing, use of calculators and assistive software, adapted presentation of numerical data, and access to Access to Work funding for specialist coaching and practical tools. Our assessment reports are written with the specific requirements of employers and HR professionals clearly in mind, providing actionable recommendations alongside the diagnostic findings.
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