Dyspraxia and sides of the brain

[alfiemama]

I have suspected Alfie of having dyspraxia for a while and the paed confirmed she also thinks he is aswell as asd.

I was researching and found it is to do with the sides of the brain one not functioning as it should (this is very simple layman terms ).

I was looking at some piccies of him and we have noticed that one side of the face looks lazyier if that makes sense.

Has anyone else noticed this at all?

My ds and I both have dyspraxia, i havent noticed any difference in either of us though...

Thanks Lottie

Im sure Im not imagining it, I have posted for a short time a piccie of him on my profile.

Ok been researching and cannot find anything in connection with dyspraxia.

Beginning to think that maybe this has occured because of a petit mal (he has appointment to check out epilepsy)

Could someone have a look at the piccie and tell me honestly what they think?

he does look like he has a lazy side. i dont think it would be anything to do with dyspraxia (ds2 also has dyspraxia btw) i think you could be right about it being to do with epilepsy.

Thanks Cherrymonster for having a look for me, I thought I was going bonkers.

would not think that any facila difference would be due to dyspraxia.

however i have read elsewhere about people with aspergers etc have connections between left and right side of brain etc different to nt. (not sure if this is scientifically proven etc) ie can hear fine, but cant process what they are hearing etc. i think this contributes to their lack of coordination etc.

I had a look yesterday as my Dt2 has dyspraxic traits . I did think that one side of his face looked a bit different. I dont think I would have said it looked lazy just somewhat less expressive. I have never heard of this being linked to dyspraxia.

He is a real cutie with a lovely smile

ds has dyspraxic dx (as well as having aspergers dx)
The OT said he had a weakness down his left side..with joints..unstable pelvis...hymobility on all joints and a tremor in his left arm.
I'm thinking it makes sense for this to be reflected in faces too tbh. Muscle tone on my boy is underdeveloped...and you can see this when you look at his hand for instance. I can imagine seeing the same thing in faces and in the way they move too...it's not too much a stretch of the imagination.
My friends ds has verbal dyspraxia..and his muscles in the front of his mouth are poorly developed. You can tell this from looking at his mouth
It does make sense to me
Although i have to say...i can't see it from your pic...i think perhaps you have to really know the child and to see him in action.
He's a cutie btw

Ah thanks everyone, its very interesting aout the muscle tone.
I have been to the orthapaedics appointment today and never knew how much he can bend, the paed said he is extremely bendy (is this hypermobile) He could bend his ankle right back to his leg, made me feel queezy and his hands to his wrist (yuck)

He is to have special boots and arches. The paed said he wouldnt benefit from an op god knows what that was for.

He said he has flexible flat footedness. Not sure if I am supposed to inform dla of all these new findings.

He gets mid rate care but no mobility as under 5. But since the dla we have a verbal dx of Autism (not Aspergers as I put suspected As on the forms) suspected dyspraxia (waiting for OT) referral to Nuerologist for epilepsy and now this. Should I let them know do you think?

My ds has flat feet......he is also double jointed as well....

He looks a cutie indeed! I was wondering if you had had his eyesight checked out as well with the dyspraxia and hypermobility just in case that had a part to play in Alfies co-ordination difficulties too?

Hi wasuup3000

Funnily enough he has had his eyes checked, as his HV thought he had a squint, I can understand why now, but not he hasnt as per the eye specialist and he has 20 20 vision.

I was wondering as my first son had a turn in his eye and used to bump into objects and people. It affected his co-ordination quite badly. He had to have a corrective operation in the end as it wasn't resolved my patching and glasses and turned in severely. My daughter was also told after a optician eye test when she was about 3 (thought we'd check her out after her younger brothers problems)that her eyes was fine. Turned out that via a school routine eye check, 2 years later, that she had to visit the eye clinic and have her vision checked via eye drops. Turned out that she had astigmatism in both eyes and that there was no point patching her as both eyes were similarly affected. Apparently eyesight can change as it is not fully developed until around 7 years of age (I am sure that is true), well that's the reason I was given but I won't use a certain opticians again as if noticed earlier it would have been better.

Crikey wasuup, we shouldnt really be up at this time lol. Im nervous about Alfs nuerologist app tommorow though.
He had his eyes checked at a special eye clinic, but saying that he was young, couldnt read etc. I also have a stigmatism, didnt know until recently, been wearing lenses for years but changed from one place to another and wham now I have one, hmm. I wont be going back to the other opticians either.

off to bed now though, nite

Hope the appointment is OK today.

Thanks wasuup, so do I lol