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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter (almost 6) was diagnosed with dyspraxia at 20 months.  My understanding of it is more in terms about one's ability to execute motor plans.  Speech is my daughter's biggest challenge (she was a textbook example of a child with apraxia).  But the rest of her body is also impacted, too.  Her fine motor skills tested strong when she was very young, but now that she uses those skills more for writing and drawing, it's evident that motor planning is hard for her there too.  (It's not holding the pen that's the challenge, it's her brain's ability to make her muscles move in the way that would result in an S, for instance.)  Similarly, learning to walk was a challenge, just like learning to pedal was a challenge, just like learning to swim was a challenge.  However, with help (particularly hand-over-hand demos -- beyond just verbal instructions or visual demos), and tons and tons of practice (more than most peers), she's learned to ride a bike (with training wheels), swim, and speak (nonstop).

Not sure that this is very helpful, but it feels like a different or separate understanding of dyspraxia.  My daughter also sometimes seems to have some difficulty knowing where her body is in space, and also sometimes is a sensory seeker, but I've chalked those up to separate (but often comorbid) neurological differences (underdeveloped vestibular system, like PP said, proprioceptive dysfunction, etc.).  [/quote]

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