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dragontamer
07-21-2008, 02:44 PM
I'm hoping that someone can help me here.:D I've always wondered what was wrong with me, and my mum told me recently that she susspected that i have dyspraxia:mad:. The carra calo cerublar (or whatever it is called, i cannot remember) matches the most - musce twitching, dynamic voice changes and irregular writing. All of this matches how i've been all of my life:mog:. Only problem is, there was one problem that i couldn't find in dyspraxia - how i have terrible trouble with physical activities - eg, football, netball.:confused:
As well as having terrible hand-eye coerdination, in activites which i enjoy, such as karate, which i started a few months ago:pinkelephant:, you can show me a move, eg, cresent kick, to knock the knife out of an opponent's hand:smash:, a thousand times, i still will not understand. And because i cannot see it and understand it, i can't perform it so in turn i can't learn by doing it! This is stressful, as i do karate with my mother's boyfriend, Glen, and his two sons, and none of them understand. They think that i can't do the moves because im too lazy:whaaa: and that i should do some work off of my own back to learn the moves, which i would do if i could understand what was being asked of me!!
Im not generally a dull person, either,:Oo: in all my GCSE's, i'm predicted A*, of course, i am good at written work, a little worse at practicle activities, but hey - I'm doing ok. Jesus, i write stories for crying out loud!
I hope someone here can help me:bigbiggri, because its driving me crazy! all i'm really asking is if my sports problem sounds like anything that you, or some one that you know has, and what it is, so i can reasearch it.
Many thanks, D.T :ty: :ty:

MushroomZOMBIE
07-21-2008, 02:49 PM
"Dyspraxia entails the partial loss of the ability to coordinate and perform certain purposeful movements and gestures in the absence of motor or sensory impairments."

Sounds like mommy is right. Your mom, or me, cannot diagnose you, becuase we are not doctors.
Go to one to get evaluated properly.
Also, ask your mom if something happened to you during birth. Becuase it could be acquired, or that you were "born with it".

Balzac
07-21-2008, 03:18 PM
Sounds like mommy is right. Your mom, or me, cannot diagnose you, becuase we are not doctors.
Go to one to get evaluated properly.

That.

MushroomZOMBIE
07-21-2008, 03:31 PM
Not any doctor; A specialist in that area.
Hell, getting the degree for a doctor is too long...
:P

Old Manus
07-21-2008, 03:52 PM
Yeah, we're not doctors, otherwise we'd have ambulances in our avatars or something

MushroomZOMBIE
07-21-2008, 04:10 PM
No, it's a wannabe ambulance.
It's too small to see, but it says "Wee Oooo Weee ooo!"

Avarice-ness
07-21-2008, 06:01 PM
Dear god don't give me another thing to massively read about.

Interesting info: Yay~


Dyspraxia may be acquired (e.g. as a result of brain damage suffered from a stroke or other trauma), or associated with failure / delay of normal neurological development - i.e. developmental dyspraxia.

The term apraxia is more often used to describe this symptom in clinical practice, although strictly apraxia denotes a complete (as opposed to partial) loss of the relevant function. In the UK and elsewhere the term dyspraxia is now more often used as shorthand for 'developmental dyspraxia' in referring to one or all of a heterogeneous range of disorders affecting the initiation, organization and performance of action

Assessments for dyspraxia typically require a developmental history, detailing ages at which significant developmental milestones, such as crawling and walking, occurred. Motor skills screening includes activities designed to indicate dyspraxia, including balancing, physical sequencing, touch sensitivity, and variations on walking activities. A baseline motor assessment establishes the starting point for developmental intervention programs. Comparing children to normal rates of development may help to establish areas of significant difficulty. Developmental milestones are tasks most children can perform at certain ages. ... Crawling is a form of moving around by some animals, and, in some cases humans, generally involving slow movement on all limbs. ... An animated demonstration of a six-legged insect walking.

There are six main areas of difficulty which can be profiled within dyspraxia; the four main areas are listed below:




Speech and language
Developmental verbal dyspraxia is a type of ideational dyspraxia, causing linguistic or phonological impairment. Key problems include:

Difficulties controlling the speech organs.
Difficulties making speech sounds
Difficulty sequencing sounds
Within a word
Forming words into sentences
Difficulty controlling breathing and phonation.
Slow language development.
Difficulty with feeding.
Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language. ... In phonetics, phonation is the use of the laryngeal system to generate an audible source of acoustic energy, i. ...

Fine Motor Control
Difficulties with fine motor co-ordination lead to problems with handwriting, which may be due to either ideational or ideo-motor difficulties. Problems associated with this area may include:

Learning basic movement patterns.
Developing a desired writing speed.
The acquisition of graphemes – e.g. the letters of the Latin alphabet, as well as numbers.
Establishing the correct pencil grip
Hand aching while writing
In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today.

Whole body movement, coordination, and body image
Issues with fine motor coordination mean that major developmental targets include walking, running, climbing and jumping are affected. One area of difficulty involves associative movement, where a passive part of the body moves or twitches in response to a movement in an active part. For example, the support arm and hand twitching as the dominant arm and hand move, or hands turning inwards or outwards to correspond with movements of the feet. Problems associated with this area may include:

Poor timing
Poor balance
Difficulty combining movements into a controlled sequence.
Difficulty remembering the next movement in a sequence.

Physical play
Difficulties in areas relating to physical play may lead to dyspraxic children standing out from their peers. Major developmental targets include ball skills, use of wheeled toys and manipulative skills, including pouring, threading and using scissors.

Problems with spatial awareness, or proprioception
Mis-timing when catching
Complex combination of skills involved in using scissors
The other two developmental profiles concern dressing and feeding. Proprioception (from Latin proprius, meaning ones own and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body.

More info: NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dyspraxia (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dyspraxia)

I'm assuming the reasons that they only show 4 of the 6 categories is because the 4 are more common and dominate in someone who has this and it is also most likely that in diagnosis you only need 4 or the 6 to be diagnosed because the last two are not dominate.

dragontamer
07-24-2008, 04:17 PM
Dear god don't give me another thing to massively read about.

Lol! Thanks for the info, i really appreceiate it! More than a few thing match. Bloody hell - i was in year six before anyone could read my writing! (10-11 years old) People still have a lot of trouble now, though...

I know you guyes ain't docters, so you don't have to beat me around the head with it, but like i said in my first post, you or someone in your family, or even a friend may have it, so you would know how to recognize certain symptoms.
I thin i will find someone who specialises in dyspraxia. I think that if it is dyspraxia (or aspraxia) i think that it is genetic (born with it) as when i told my mother about the cerebo-cerebellar dysfunction (got the soelling right this time!) she told me that the symptoms matched her problems as well. I don't believe, or i haven't been told, if there were any problems when i was born, but i don't think that there were.