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I am interested in others' experiences with dyscalculia. Is it your experience that it is stand-alone, or occurs more commonly in conjunction with dyslexia or other learning disabilities? My own experience is that dyscalculia is generally the only disability in evidence with the individual, and is generally referred to as 'Math Anxiety'. I have had limited success in making headway with it.
I think that a lot of people have math anxiety because they have in their formative years learned math from elementary teachers who have math anxiety and so unconsciously pick up and mimic their teachers' fears.
Fear of anything can produce an inability to do it well.
I do think dyscalculia is a bona fide learning disability, however I think a lot of people who claim to be "terrible" at math simply have anxiety about it because they haven't yet learned that it is simply about applying a basic set of rules to solve an equation logically.
For those with true dyscalculia, perhaps it would be most helpful to provide them with several reference materials such as tables, formulas, etc. Hands on models, like moving an object along a number line or using small items to visualize groupings may also be helpful.