As a rule these children take a longer time than normal with all learning. Usually the child benefits most from working at a slower pace and with simplified teaching material. In intelligence tests, children with more general difficulties usually perform below average, but with a quite even result. In other words, these children are even in their difficulties, from one subject to another, and also from one day to another.
Children with more general difficulties usually do not experience as much frustration in their learning environment as those with dyscalculia. There is a general agreement that they simply need more time to learn things.
Pseudo-dyscalculia is a big and important group in which learning difficulties arise from emotional blockings. Children with pseudo-dyscalculia have the cognitive ability to succeed in mathematics, but despite this, they run into problems. They may have committed themselves to the idea that they absolutely cannot be successful in the subject. This thought can be deeply rooted, and perhaps linked to ideas that they are not smart enough. All personal failures in mathematics confirm this view for these