Dyspraxia?

[Mellowma]

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Hi

The Dyscovery Centre has a good site - this link should lead to descriptions of dyspraxia. The Dyspraxia foundation is good. Also here .

My Ds2 has no diagnosis but a lot of dyspraxic symptons \tendencies and also oral dyspraxia so his speech is very unclear. In his case he also has language problems which may or may not be related to the motor difficulties. He is quite low muscle-toned and floppy, he sat up, crawled and walked late. He has a lot of fine motor problems and tires quite easily. He is poorly co-ordinated, badly organised in his actions (poor motor planning) and has a lot of trouble judging things, doing simple things like shape sorting, can't pedal, jump etc. I think he is quite severely affected though and you can have milder forms of dyspraxia than that.

I think it depends on the consultant but you are unlikely to get a diagnosis of dyspraxia at the age of 2 because they say the child may grow out of it. Also they want to be sure whether other skills are delayed or just motor skills because really to get a diagnosis of dyspraxia the motor skills should be behind the other skills such as language.

HTH.

It is not the same as adhd - although a child can have both.

try Dyscovery centre or Dyspraxia Foundation who break the possible symptoms down by age. For ds (who at 8 is as yet formally undiagnosed) as a toddler it included inability to jump, throw and catch or kick a ball, hop pedal a trike, avoidance of activities such as colouring and playdoh, physically cautious and dislike of textures such as sand, snow and grass under his feet. Although he met most of his early physical milestones (rolling, sitting, crawling , cruising), walked at 14 months but always ran, as if using the momentum to keep balance and only stood himself up from sitting without assistance after he could walk.

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Mellowma, dyspraxia has an ongoing concern for me with my DS. He was seen by a child psych at 3.5yrs old & she said it was too early even then to get a diagnosis.

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I think the problem with dsypraxia, Mellowma, is that many perfectly normal toddlers can display a wide range of dyspraxic symptoms!! It is not until they are older that the behaviour & developmental traits can be seen as out of the ordinary. At least that is my understanding.

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