Can you advise me about my DD please?

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Hi

My dd1 is 6.

She has speech difficulties, no language difficulties. Had the five sessions of salt, it didn't do much, but gradually she has improved a lot in the past two years, and is now mostly understandable to anyone.

My sis in law a long time ago suggested she had dyspraxia, when I asked the SALT she said if it was that it would be random mistakes not the same mistakes all the time.

My DD also has an issue with writing, I just thought she was lazy and exagerating when she said my hand hurt. It is literally a major thing to get her to write on sentance and the same at school.

I previously asked the teacher if DD was "floppy" at school as DH said she seemed too floppy, as in she is always tripping over her own feet, falling of chairs and stuff. The teacher said she was fine.

Yesterday at parents evening, the teacher said she has an issue with fine motor skills that you can tell from the shakiness of her writing (this has never been mentioned before) and that maybe her hand really does hurt.

Now obviously I know I should do activities to improve her fine motor skills, and they will at school as well.

But I cant help thinking, is speaking a fine motor skill? like moving the tongue? are the two connected?

My older dd is hypermobile and has hypotonia. We asked the speech therapist and OT about whether this could be making it harder for dd to talk and they agreed that it was possible. Dd also has ASD so lack of speech for her could well be because of that too.

There are various exercises to strengthen muscles required for speech. We were given a list of oro-motor exercises. Different exercises for lips and tongue.

we were just given here is the picture, practice the sound, put it together with other picture sort of exercises?

I do not know what hypermobility and hypotonia are?

My DD does talk, just not very clearly, she chatters away, but it is very hard to understand her unless you are very focused on what she is saying, and when she is excited it is even harder!

Hypermobility - soft collagen so joints are too bendy due to stretchy ligaments, but often affects the body more widely.

Hypotonia - low muscle tone, which would explain floppiness, slouchiness etc.

DS2 and I are blessed with this. DS2 also has ASD related language delays, but the words he does have are often very difficult to understand by most people (though he can occasionally blurt out a clear, original, grammatically correct sentence in an emotionally charged situation). He's also prone to drooling because of his low oral muscle tone.

what are the symptoms of these? what would i notice if my dd had a mil form?

You can have verbal dyspraxia too.
I don't know a huge amount about it but my friends boy was seeing a salt for it.
There is some Info here