Link between hypermobility and learning delay

[Peanuts33]

DS has hypermobility and was late walking. He didnt walk until he was two and a half. I was told by his paedatrician that because he walked late it would mean that he would be late in development of everything else, i.e. talking, communication etc. Apparently this is because he wasnt running around with his peers so therefore not communicating with them and his brain wasnt processing all the information that his peers were processing.

I've just got his first reception report and he "needs support" in two out of the three subjects.

Does anyone have experience of this and their child caught up in the end?

I think the variety of views posted here shows that hypermobility (which varies in severity anyhow) does not have a strong correlation to other aspects of development. Can you go back to your medical team to ask for further expanation of what they meant? If there are concerns about general developmental delay, you really need to be more fully in the picture so you can be his advocate in getting all the support he needs.

Thank you so much everyone for replying. Personally I don't think he will struggle academically. He has been picking up sounds and the words on his word wall very quickly. But I can see how he will struggle a little bit physically and I hope this doesn't knock his confidence. He cant ride a bike or a scooter and he is reluctant to climb in soft play areas.

I think at the moment I will have a word with his teacher on monday so that she can elaborate a bit more but otherwise wait and see. He's only in reception so I will see how he does this year and maybe seek further investigation when he reaches year 1.

Peanuts33 - I found with my ds1 that Year 1 was the crunch year, when the school started to want to do more about my ds1. Now getting more things sorted in Year 2. I believe Reception would have been too early to deal with it in his case, too, even though what everyone now seems to think is the problem with my ds is what I used to think very strongly when he was a little baby! Now it's all swung the other way - I don't think he's got big problems any more and everyone else is telling me to do something about them!

I have hypermobility as does my younger son (we both have EDS III) and his speech/social development was way ahead of his gross motor skills. He didn't walk until just a few weeks before his second birthday and has frequent subluxing of his knees, wrists and hips.

His paediatrician noted that his speech and "intellect" (for want of a better word) were in advance of his years and that his fine motor skills were well-developed. He was talking clearly by the time he was around fourteen months (short two- or three-word sentences) and is now (at twenty-eight months) talking in complex sentences.

He did have some hypotonia due to his inability to use his muscles and joints correctly, but this is improving day be day as he builds strength.

My DD and my DS2 both have hypotonia and hypermobility syndrome. DD also has dyspraxia and a number of other different issues, and her eduction has been severely hampered by these issues. She is now in Y8 at secondary, and has made amazing progress since getting enough extra help at secondary, she left Y6 working on NC lvl 1, is now at a term into Y8 working on between low level 3/ low level 4 dependant on the subject.

DS2 however, has Hypotonia and HMS, but is (verbally) working at an 'average' level for his Y2 class. He is working on lvl 2c for maths and lvl 1a for reading. However, it is very difficult for him to show this on paper as his hand/finger joints sublux frequently and cause him pain. I think that hypermobility syndrome on it's own does not pose any major problems when it comes to education, but it's the combination of other issues that can be related to HMS that can hinder these dc.