02/10/2021
The more we know the more we can help right...
I am constantly in awe of our daughter who has the most incredible resilience.
When we know what is happening for the people we spend time with, we can put in place accommodations to best support them 💗
"Dyspraxia affects:
- Your co-ordination, balance and movement
- How you learn new skills, think, and remember information at work and home
- Your daily living skills, such as dressing or preparing meals
- Your ability to write, type, draw and grasp small objects
- How you function in social situations
- How you deal with your emotions
- Time management, planning and personal organisation skills
At school age, it can present as:
- Has little understanding of concepts such as ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘in front of’ etc
- Has difficulty in walking up and down stairs
- Poor at dressing
- Slow and hesitant in most actions
- Appears not to be able to learn anything instinctively but must be taught skills
- Falls over frequently
- Poor pencil grip
- Avoiding PE and games
- Doing badly in class but significantly better on a one-to-one basis
- Reacting to all stimuli without discrimination and attention span is poor
- May have trouble with maths and writing structured stories
- Experiences great difficulty in copying from the blackboard
- writes laboriously and immaturely
- Unable to remember and/or follow instructions
- Is generally poorly organised"
Things we can do to help:
- Learn their processing speed, and adjust accordingly by pausing or slowing down
- 1 instruction at a time
- Picture prompt reminders
- awhen conversing check they are still following
- Reduce distractions & help them get back to task if distracted
The lifelong neurological condition affects our co-ordination, as well as how we organise ourselves, how we structure our sentences, our time management and our speech patterns
