Does any one have a child with dyspraxia?

[birty]

My son is five and he has been behaving strange. I have been looking into dyspraxia and he seems to have quite a few sypmtoms. Sensitive to loud noises, saying he can't do things that to me are simple, getting very emotional and frustrated, not using scissors correctly and quite clumsey. Are these symptoms the same as your child?

DS is 9 and has only just had a diagnosis because we put all his little ways down to him being so premature 27 weeks.

Anyway now the more we find out about it we realise that they were his dyspraxia.

The one that didn't seem to make any sense was that he couldn't climb over a fence or gate it was like he didn't know what or where to put his feet or hands. Since doing reading have found out this is indeed a symptom.

He can't work out how to throw a ball against a wall so that it will come back to him to catch if he could catch that is.

He was already having physio because of a hypermobilty prob and weakness in his leg. So they picked it up.

HTH

oh btw there are alot of mnetters that know alot more about dyspraxia than me they have given me so much help and advice so if they are not here now bump it later on and they will help you I am sure.
good luck

I think it is really difficult to generalise.

ds is 6 1/2 and is, I think, borderline in that he does have some tendencies which could be classed as dyspraxic but by no means all of them and, as yet, he has not been diagnosed. It is really easy to get drawn in to self diagnosis but I'm not sure that is very helpful. Could you talk to his teacher or gp about your worries and they could give you a better steer. ds' issues were picked up by his teacher last year and , although we were aware of specific things he found difficult, had no context to judge whether these were significant or common to that age group and would just develop.

For the record ds' main problems relate to self organisation - thoughts, actions and so on - and needs prompting. He has poor body awareness so lacks the instinctive sense of what his body is doing or needs to do to perform an action. This makes writing, using scissor and activities involving gross and fine motor coordination difficult. He also gets unnerved when crowded such as cycling at a playground with others as he cannot predict their movements and lacks confidence in his own.

In the past year we have noticed a significant improvement in his motor skills so that he can use scissors ok now and his writing is much more fluid, straight and legible. He has also had Occupational Therapy since May and has really benefitted.

I hope you are able to follow this up to your satisfaction and get help for him if needs be. hth

birty - I would bump this up again early next week (MN tends to be a bit quieter at weekends) and might also be worth posting on the Special Needs board too.

My dd is 12 and has dyspraxia. She was very like you son at age five. The primary school she went to was very good and arranged for her to see the schools doctor, She then saw an oppucational therapist and eventually an ed phsycholagist. She was finally diognused at age 7 after a lot of pushing both from the school and us. A child with dyspraxia will take longer to do things and gets tired easily. My DD can now has writing slope as this helps her writing. She learnt to ride a bike and tie shoe laces at 10. She is now mainly alright about noises but an get a bit panicy if she think something is going to be very load.We recently went up a bell tower and she was unsure about the bells but enjoyed it in the end.I would mention your concerns to your school and see if they can arrange for her to see an Ed phsycolagist. I have to warn you that not all schools are as good as ours we are having a bit of difficulty with her high school at the moment. Physical exercise helps my dd had swimmimg lessons and also sessions with an oppucational therapist for a short while. There is a good site that might help you.www.dyscovery.co.uk. Sorry this is so lng hope it helps

My DD (5) has recently had a diagnosis of dyspraxia. She was finding it really hard to do things like hold a pencil and use scissors and was getting into the cycle of deciding things were too hard, not trying and getting upset. I've always felt that things for her were slightly harder than they should have been, learning to jump for example took ages and ages. There are a whole load of other things that had been a problem, she found it hard to feed herself, found climbing difficult, was always tripping, ran in a strange way - for example. She has hypermobile joints and low muscle tone which make things harder for her.

I approached her teacher with my concerns after her first half term in reception. She agreed with me and arranged for the School's special needs teacher to observe and assess her, then they referred her to the co-ordination clinic at our local hospital (via the school doctor) where she was assessed by a physio and occupational therapist and has had a course of treatment from them which has helped a great deal. A good book to read is Developmental Dyspraxia by Madeleine Portwood - I found a lot of it rang true of my DD. I also think it's a good idea to bump this up tomorrow. Good luck.

my little brother has dyspraxia , i cant be much help to you but i will be watching this threadx