Dyspraxia. How to I help me son?

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Please excuse me posting this in several areas, but Im new to this and I dont know which area is best for us.

Ive seen the school, they gave my an extensive questionnairre of which I ticked 'yes' to 95% of the questions, they gave my some information to read, which was interesting and explained even more things about him. Why he stuggles to eat quietly, why he only appears to have awareness of 6 inches in front of him when he scoots. Why hes struggles to STOP! When running or scooting etc etc etc

I spoke to the doctor who shrugged. Literally. He shrugged.

Said its out of his hands, theres OT for school age children. See the school.

Thats it.

THATS IT?!

This just makes me panic. I thought might be able to give him excercises for at least his hypermobility.

The school is filling out the questionnaire and they can follow up on it but 'it might be quicker to see your GP'.

So basically it seems for a while at least, no one is helping my son.

So Im going to do what I do best and Im going to read, research, ask, learn and help my son in the best way that I can.

What books can I buy? What ones are best? What excercises are good? What activities can benefit him? (He does football and swimming).
What tricks of the trade do I need to know?

Anything at all, please please help me.

Hello, have you been to The Dyspraxia Foundation? , they have lots of information and advice that I found very helpful on the long road to my DS's diagnosis. Does your school offer a FunFit activity?

Our OTs said that karate and the like were very helpful, and they always recommended it. I hope you get some OT help soon, it's awful just waiting, I know.

The school nurse was our lifeline, she observed my son in class, picked up some behaviour in the "spectrum" that we were not aware of and referred us to Autism Paedotrician. 18 months later we are getting some support from OT sessions and awaiting referral to Pyscology Dept to see if we can get diagnosis, dispraxia has been mentioned to us but its a long waiting game.
Swimming has been excellent for my son, he's 9. Brill on scooter, not so much on bike.
Every child is different so whatever your son is confident in I would embrace!

Hi both me and my dd have dyspraxia. I've just found a great page with loads of helpful info:
www.dyspraxiadcdcork.ie/tips_08.pdf
Sorry not sure link will work but address is correct, hope u find it useful.

OP, not intentionally hijacking, but I am in a similar situation. Except that there are only certain limited aspects which tick boxes for 6yo DD. Examples would be that she "forgets" how to hold a fork/pen/horses reins constantly, misses words when reading, falls off chairs /over thin air, puts shoes on the wrong feet more often than not. OTOH she draws well, writes constantly by choice, runs as fast as her 10yo brother, does ballet, plays guitar.

Her teacher flagged it to me because they did some dyspraxia awareness training and she said every single thing reminded her of DD. Teacher and I were wondering if a label would even be of any use to her. What practical help would she need/get? I suspect that I would get the same reaction as the OP if we went to the GP, possibly more so as she is in an independent school and not struggling academically at all.

I will follow up on the links already posted too.

www.spdfoundation.net/library/homeactivities.html

I know this about sensory issue but they also work for children who are dyspraxic!