Dyspraxia - Please Help

[bmblawyer]

Hello Mums
My 6yo ds has recently been diagnosed with Dyspraxia. I know that there is a wealth of reading and information which I am currently trawling through, however I have 2 questions.

1. I know that intervention can be very effective particularly early on. Please can anyone who has successfully used a particular therapy or practice let me know.
2. My son gets very angry and the smallest thing will trigger him off into a huge meltdown. Is this associated with Dyspraxia. I would not describe him an lacking in confidence or necessarily frustrated. For example what set him off this morning was his brother getting hold of a book that he was intending to pick up and read.

Thanks very much from a desperate and shell-shocked mum ;-)

Hi sorry, no real help, as I didn't even know my dyspraxic DD when she was 6 (adopted ). My DD's dyspraxia was also only confirmed recently (age 15) so also no real idea about early interventions.

It's not the worst thing in the world, and the fact it has been identified so young is really positive. Hope you get a more helpful reply soon.

There are lots of exercises that occupational therapy can recommend but it's a life long condition. Things can help a lot but there's no cure.

My ds has meltdowns. He has problems with so many things. Memory being one. What sets him off do you think?

Came across this thread by chance whilst looking for something else. But just wanted to say I was diagnosed with dyspraxia when I was 8, I think it's an incredibly frustrating condition because it doesn't affect your intelligence merely your ability to organise / coordinate and articulate yourself on paper, all things that are particularly important at school. I was completely hopeless at things such as tying shoelaces, telling the time, spelling, showing numerical workings out but could actually do quite complex maths in my head and had a high reading age. In some areas I suffered quite severely and had one to one tuition outside the classroom for a year. But for me it really diminished with age. On going to secondary school I refused to let my mum inform the school (absolutely not recommending this obviously!) but managed to slip through the net and still managed good gcse's and a levels, I now work as a commissioning editor at the BBC and have two lovely children. If my primary school teachers could see me now I think they would be pretty shocked. It is a hard road but people with dyspraxia often have a lot of skills too, especially in the creative arts etc. I hope this has been reassuring. I still have absolutely no sense of direction or map skills though so that hasn't changed!