Dyspraxia
Difficulty planning and carrying out coordinated movement — not weakness, but the sequencing of an action. Doing up buttons, catching, handwriting, riding a bike, moving through a crowded room.
Why dyspraxia matters.
It is widely read as clumsiness or carelessness, which lands on the child as a character judgement. The effort involved is invisible: a task other children stop thinking about stays effortful for years, and the fatigue that produces by mid-afternoon is real.
Most of the useful adjustments are cheap. More time, fewer simultaneous demands, a task broken into steps, and not being asked to write and listen at once.
Questions that get a real answer
- Which specific tasks, and at what point in the day do they fall apart?
- What has been adjusted in PE, and in handwriting?
- Is fatigue being accounted for after lunch?
Ask these of anyone, including us. What you are listening for is not the right answer — it is whether the answer is specific enough to be wrong.
Terms that usually turn up alongside it.
Early intervention
Support delivered in the preschool years, when change tends to come faster. It is a genuinely strong argument
GlossaryEcholalia
Repeating words or phrases heard elsewhere — immediately, or hours and weeks later. It is communication, not
GlossaryExecutive function
The set of mental skills that run everything else — planning, starting a task, holding a sequence in mind
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