Symptoms of Dyspraxia

What is dyspraxia?

Dyspraxia is also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. This condition affects the coordination of the right and left side of the body, making movement clumsy and awkward. People with Dyspraxia show signs of clumsiness and difficulty with coordination as well as their fine motor skills and gross motor skills.

Fine motor skills are those skills which require the performance of precise movements, for example: fastening buttons, tying laces, or writing with a pen. Whereas gross motor skills are skills relating to balance, posture, and limb coordination, for example: catching, throwing or kicking a ball, and therefore they will often avoid participating in sport.

Other symptoms of dyspraxia may also include:

• poor balance and coordination
• clumsiness
• emotional and behavioural problems
• sensitivity to noise and touch
• speech difficulties

All of these skills do develop but at a much slower rate - making people with dyspraxia fall further behind others in their age group.

Showing signs of dyspraxia?

What causes dyspraxic symptoms?