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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain how “low muscle tone” presents in their kid? I’m wondering if this is what I’m seeing in my son, though the doctor has never mentioned it.[/quote]

Low muscle tone, as another PP said, is a neurological issue. For my DS (now 18), it presented itself at age 1 when I noticed he would always crawl rather than try to stand and walk.  We had him evaluated at Child Find, he was at that point shown to be 3-4 months behind his peers.  He crawled until he was 16 months old.  But that was just the beginning for him. His low muscle tone started showing up in all of his gross and fine motor skills - i.e., writing, speech articulation, pencil grip, clumsy walking, not athletic at all.  At age 6 we had him re-evaluated by the top OT in Montgomery County.  His diagnosis went from low muscle tone to Dyspraxia. His learning was also affected, and he was simultaneously diagnosed by a psychologist as having ADHD. It's been a very tough road for him with 16 years of OT and Speech. He's had an IEP since the 1st grade. He's always been in remedial classes, always behind trying to catch up.   Not every child with low muscle tone will go the same route as my DS, some fair better others worse.    If you suspect something is going on, your DS needs to be evaluated by a developmental pediatrician, then an OT. [/quote]

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