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What they say
Dyspraxia
“To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand. In
yourself you stretch, you are well”
Gwendolyn Brooks
The word dyspraxia is derived from the Greek ‘dys’ (meaning poor or inadequate) and ‘praxis’ (doing or acting). The primary difficulty is an impairment or immaturity of the organisation of movement and is normally caused by an immaturity in the way that the brain processes information, which results in messages not being properly or fully transmitted.
Problems arise in the process of forming ideas, motor planning and execution, since those with dyspraxia have poor understanding of the messages their senses convey and difficulty relating those messages to actions. This means physical activities are hard to learn, difficult to retain, and hesitant and awkward to perform.
It is often linked to problems of language, perception and thought. It can affect many areas of development, such as sensory, language, physical, intellectual, emotional and social and may impair a person’s normal process of learning.
Dyspraxia occurs irrespective of intelligence or background and more often in males. It can be hereditary and affects up to ten percent of the population to some extent and up to one in thirty in a more severe form. There often is an overlap with related conditions.
The difficulties with motor skills ranging from fine motor skills (such as handwriting) to gross motor skills (such as running and general coordination issues). Some early indicators of dyspraxia may include a failure to go through the crawling stages, avoiding tasks that require dexterity, (i.e. playing with Lego or jigsaw puzzles), poor body awareness (bumping into things), language difficulties and late in establishing a dominant hand.
An underlying cause of dyspraxia is often an unpractised and immature vestibular system (the balance mechanism located in the inner ear). It mediates other systems in the body including proprioception (our ability to know where our body is in space) and binocularity (our eyes working together as a team). Imbalances in these or other sensory systems, or the retention of reflexes (automatic reactions), may all be implicated in dyspraxia.
Imbalances in the sensory systems and the reflexes can be addressed through Auditory Integration Training (AIT), Lightwave Stimulation (LWS) and Neuro-developmental Programme (NDP) programmes.
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