Apologies for yet another question!
I am a little confused. My DS has been referred to Occupational Therapist (long waiting list apparently) for perceptual and fine motor skills problems by the Pediatrician. However, his teacher has said she doesn't believe he has fine motor skill problems, and that it will all come right with age.
One of the things the Pediatrician observed was that he has an immature pencil grip (fist). He is 5&1/2. He was almost engraving the table with the pressure he puts on the paper when drawing. Again, teacher said she thinks its related to the grip and because hes left handed he needs time to establish a comfy grip. he has triangular pencils.
Another, was the fact that he has been known to bump into things. Teacher told me once she was trying to shout him but he carried on walking and went straight into a wall. He knocked himself out last year and ended up with glue in a wound over his eye. He ran into a bin recenty. Asked me why I didn't tell him it was there. He can hop quite well. Doesn't seem to have gross motor problems. Recently he came back from school and said I bumped into 2 children today Mummy. I'm going to have to slow down faster!
His artistic side is amazing! He has beautiful handwriting at times for a 5 year old, in fact I think he draws rather than writes. He struggles with literacy, a little better at numbers but still not acheiving average results at school (on special needs register).
i respect both the teacher and the pediatrician, but who am i meant to believe? the teacher who sees him more, but has been qualified for 4 years? or the pediatrician who presumably has over 30 years experience as she's just retired? I suggested to Pediatrician that he may not get himself dressed cos he doesn't want to i.e. can do won't do but she was insistent that that's not true. yet teachers say opposite!
Any help/comments appreciated. Thanks
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Can you have neat handwriting if you have Dyspraxia?
Jerbil · 29/07/2011 08:42
Thnx again guys. Sometimes they just mess with your head. 
Halcyon, it's possible to be DX as an adult, but unlikely. If it explains a lot of your problems, I hope it gives you some comfort that there actually was a reason for it. Dyspraxia is often thought to be on the autistic spectrum these days, on the edge of it. I had a long and slightly bad tempered argument 
with someone yesterday about self diagnosing with dyspraxia. I couldn't see the harm in it if you know your facts. Here if you can be bothered It's the bit in the middle with thetasigma.
I have dyspraxia (diagnosed at age 25!) and most of the time my handwriting is really neat, though I have about 5 different handwriting styles! Sometimes its round, sometimes sloping forwards, sometimes backwards etc. I also vary how i hold my pen.
Ouryve: you sound just like me, complicated things I can do, walk in a stright line... impossible!! 
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