Dyspraxia - finally someone is starting to listen. What next?

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Ok Im jumping ahead of myself a little bit, but for the first time in 2 years my sons teacher (this year) totally agrees that he is symptomatic of dyspraxia and Tourette's.

By pure coincidence a letter came from a local paeditrician asking his teacher to fill it out. (Id asked the GP to refer him, but he told me there was no point).

The teacher said it does take a while and there is a bit of a fight, which Im prepared for.

But just say he does get seen, he does get assessed and he does get diagnosed with dyspraxia.

What exactly would happen? What would help by having a diagnoses? What would change? School? Appointments? Equipments? Help? Nothing?

Again, I realise Im jumping ahead and there may be more fight, but I was so relieved to finally have a professional (or anyone!) see what Ive been seeing for so long.

Depends on how it manifests itself . Maybe further assessments, referral to occupational therapy which could be a series of sessions or just a home therapy programme, maybe suggestions as to how he can be helped at school and home , maybe basic equipment (ie pencil grips , cushions, putty) or recommendations for you and/or school to purchase, or maybe a wait and see approach or discharge.

We have recently had a dyspraxia diagnosis. This was done by the OT who has been seeing ds weekly since September (OT have been involved for over a year). The diagnosis was made about a month ago. My ds has also been seen by SALT, child development team, ENT, educational psychologist ,paediatrician and neurologist over the last couple of years. You might not need to see all these but I just want to warn you that it could take some time to get diagnosed! Your case might be more straightforward.

The diagnosis provides a short hand to telling others about ds difficulties but these were being considered anyway. He now (continues to) gets OT and I think he is also part of some other supportive activities in school. he also gets support in the classroom but that is part of the specialist language unit support he has. We are also being assessed to get IT support (iPad at this stage though a laptop may be more appropriate later).

If your ds is having difficulties now then these should be addressed now; you shouldn't need a diagnosis.