What is (Dyspraxia Developmental Co – ordination) (DDCD)

 

Dyspraxia affects the body and the brain but 

really it affects the body mostly, it is a very hidden disorder. 

Affecting co -ordination, fine motor skills, balance, sport, driving and more. 

Most people who face the disorder look to those who don’t them and never

 seen as if they do not have problems physically but they do.

 If you spend a lot of time with these people you will see the difficulties they face.

I do not know when it starts for other people but for me 

it started lack of oxygen to the brain at birth, where for

 50 odd years and it will be for the rest of my life,

 affect the left hand side of the brain like a stroke.

 I would not know if some if not most people get on the right side of the brain.

In my early years, they called it a mild brain jury or damage

 but I have always known by feel that the left – side 

of my brain affects the physical difficulties I face.

 Although it never goes away, it is not all negative, 

as I have found I overcame some things over the years.

There is help and support, but my Mum and family weren’t aware of starting 

with such support and treatment as Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy. 

To start with none of us knew the name of the disorder.

 I was in my 30s until we knew the name. 

 By feel I knew what was causing it, but I knew for a long time how to explain it. 

Ben’s Mum is concerned because only she knows his struggles. Ben worries in case people think he is stupid if he asks others for help a lot. A lot of people are offering support in areas he can cope with rather than cannot, which what is concerns his Mum.

Ben can read and write but he does not remember or understand what he’s read, he needs support aids, easy read, accessible information, clear for all. 

He has Autism as well. 

What sort of help does Ben need? What I have written in the text is just examples of support, maybe you can research online, the library etc. 

What is concerning Ben’s Mum and why?

Therefore, you may be wondering, what does Dyspraxia have to do with Saliva gland cancer? That is understandable. To be honest nothing really, do not face Dyspraxia to face Saliva glad cancer. However,’ me and family are not sure how long I had the lump before my Mum discovered it at the age of seven, but I have always struggled with my month eating.

swallowing etc. anyway with my month and tongue, whereas the lump was inside my throat but all the same they all add up and make you wonder whether not both problems started during while I was born. Therefore, I am not only speaking for me but for others who may have faced the same if not similar.

Due to the amount of difficulties people face with Dyspraxia, it causes us a huge amount of Anxiety and Depression, which we can get frustrated with what we do struggle, which were of right tools, aids, support etc. needs to be around. This could also mean mental health support and for people all ages needing to know why they struggle. Those who do not know they face Dyspraxia, funding needs to go into assessments, Diagnosis’s and the support they do need.

Also training and qualifying, those who want to be physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist, which is what could have done from childhood and other people who have always faced Dyspraxia and other conditions etc. I just hope today’s generation and others to come to get better support.

On the positive side people with Dyspraxia can be creative in some areas of IT but not others. Saying that I have found that there have not been many IT courses. Mind you the Covid lockdown did not help as everything was limited. 

I can only speak for myself and my strengths, which is power point, word processing, creative writing, drawing, painting etc., which are likely to be different for different people.

Dyspraxia needs to be taken very seriously. 

as it is a physical hidden learning difficulty

 that is not noticeable,

 which is why it is hard? 

condition to understand.

 It is not illness or disease,

 it is a long-life condition that affects. 

people’s lives mentally as well 

physically.

 It can be linked to Autism. 

However,’ 

with the lifetime conditions being 

such a hidden learning difficulty, 

it is understandable why it can be hard. 

for others to take seriously. 

Where people with Dyspraxia

 can be misunderstood as 

clumsy, spill Ing something

 on purpose etc.; 

for example, but all the same people with 

Dyspraxia need to be understood. 

No one can really tell unless they spend a 

lot of time with the person, unless they know. 

them well like family etc. 

Dyspraxia is caused by a brain injury or a

  stroke, in fact it is like a stroke where.

 one side of the body and brain is weaker that the other. 

In my case it is my left hand side but 

some may be affected on their right hand side.

It can slow people down physical skills. 

such as sewing, sport, cooking, housework, 

even shopping, carrying, lifting, cleaning teeth, 

tying shoes laces and more.

It may affect such skills as road sense, driving, and riding a bike.

Coordinate, grip, etc.

With drinks for example; they be able to only do one thing at a time, which may slow them done.

Such as only carrying one drink at a time because the one side of the body and brain may be stronger than the other, depending which side of the brain is damaged. With me, it is the left hand side of the brain, which affects the left hand side of my body mostly. 

Support and treatment a person really needs from as soon as it is aware they face dyspraxia, the younger they are the better. Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy, maybe also muscle exercises etc. to try to make them stronger. 

Mentally it affects reading and writing in 

the same way as Dyslexia where other 

conditions link such Dyscalculia https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-is-dyscalculia

https://study.com/academy/lesson/dysgraphia-math-difficulties-accommodations.html

It does not stop people living their own. 

life or learning with the right support, but on 

the positive side they can be creative,

 different people in different ways. 

However,’ it is important to accept.

 anything from anyone because there 

different forms of 

Dyspraxia.WWWhttps://exceptionalindividuals.com/about-us/blog/what-are-the-three-types-of-dyspraxia/

https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/signs-and-symptoms-of-dyspraxia

https://www.dyspraxia.ie/Adults-with-Dyspraxia-DCD

 cleaning teeth, cutting fingers and toes nails

, chopping up vegetables and more.

Verbal impact speech difficulties such as

 stuttering, maybe speaking too loud, quiet etc.

Oral difficulties moving the mouth and tongue, 

keeping month and teeth clean,

 gripping the toothbrush correctly etc. 

To be fair over the years dental hygiene

 has slightly improved to what it where.

 such toothbrushes as electronic toothbrushes

 have been around for years. In fact, 

I had one for my twenty - first just over.

 thirty years ago. Since then, it has been.

 such as water picks etc.

Looking at the research of dyspraxia, 

I cannot see you can face one or the

 as I face motor skills problems,

 I stuff with my speech at times, and I may talk too loud or quiet at times, 

I do not notice but others do.

In my case this is because, which.

 maybe my dyspraxia too.

 My Mum noticed a lump when.

 I was saying four seven years of age,

 little did we know it was a lump.

 because it was only the size of a pea.

 Mum notified me because.

 I felt nothing there to bother me at all. 

My Mum

 took me to the GP at time, he/she said, 

I can’t remember but anyway. 

they said it is best left alone; it is probably cystic. 

At the age of twenty - three I was doing work

 experience in an elderly people’s home,

 l was on my lunch break in the staff room, 

the cook had over cooked the straw,

 I was struggling to swallow and felt the 

lump is getting bigger.

I was living Owstely in Shropshire at the time,

 I shared a flat with two young people. 

women my age at the time 

with learning disabilities 

and we both had the same. 

support workers from society. 

services and one the support 

workers took me to gps. 

It was 1992, 

I had my first operation. 

December 6th of that year, 

home Christmas, had 

my first hospital appointment 

in the new year, they told me and,  

my Mum was a cancerous lump. 

does not spread but I must limp. 

glands out, then fifteen days of 

radiotherapy, where I felt more.

 I’ll with the treatment than the 

Thankfully, I came out of it. 

Since having had that operation, 

due scar tissue at times food,

Drinking tends to the wrong way at times,

 which can tend to cough and choke? 

but it is not every time I eat and drink.

 

Ben is seven years old who was diagnosed by an Occupational Therapist. This was a written report that outlined Ben’s condition. He was struggling with physical skills like doing up his buttons, tying his shoelaces and more.

Dyspraxia and me.

I had been working for the University Of Wolverhampton for eleven years, lecturing students professionals on and off, such as learning disability nurses, Paramedics, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists etc. 

Dyspraxia needs to be taken very seriously, it’s not an illness or disease, it is a hidden long term psychical learning difficulty. It can affect people mentally as well as physically, but the seriousness of Dyspraxia is psychically hidden more so how it may affect people mentally.

It does not stop anyone doing anything at all, but it just slows people down where it causes us to take longer than others to do things. It is not understood because people with Dyspraxia can walk and talk but it may not be the case for everyone who faces a learning difficulty and condition. 

However,’ it is important to accept anything from anyone, it can vary from person to person. 

I have lived with Dyspraxia for fifty four years since birth. To start with, it was unaware, but research grew as the years went on. https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2018/10/08/dyspraxia-strategies-that-can-help

I was born very quickly, though lack of oxygen to the brain. I was hyperactive and I had Epilepsy as a child, it came back when I was thirty one and stopped when I was forty three. I have always had family support.

It is very important for a person to be assessed and diagnosed as young as possible in order in hopes of getting the right support, but it may be different for different people. 

Psychical difficulty. 

Difficulty doing up zips, shoelaces, looking after babies, children, getting dressed etc. for example. This may cause people a lot of anxiety and frustration. 

What is Dyspraxia? Dyspraxia (Developmental Co - ordained disorder) (DCD) 

Dyspraxia is a developmental co-ordination disorder which affects movement but not intelligence. However,’ the condition may slow people down.

dyspraxia is a hidden psychical and mental learning difficulty, which affect balance, coordination, grip but affects reading, writing comprehension, math’s like Dyslexia but Dyspraxia also affects people’s physically, such skills as sport, learning to drive and more. 

It can affect reading, writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, comprehension, math in similar ways to Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia. 

Cause.

If the person was born 37 weeks into the pregnancy, prematurely.

Low weight birth, lack of oxygen to the brain, brain, injury, trauma. 

It is unclear whether Dyspraxia is family related.

If the Mother was talking drugs or drinking alcohol. 

Treatment for (DCD) Pyrotherapy.  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/developmental-coordination-disorder-dyspraxia-in-adults/

Types of Dyspraxia 

Going by research I read on the types of Dyspraxia. I have faced most of the difficulties in most of the types of Dyspraxia such as motor Dyspraxia jumping, skipping, running, and dressing. verbal Dyspraxia speech difficulties, Oral dyspraxia, problems with mouth, throat, tongue, saliva, sallow Ing etc.

Some these skills I have overcome such as difficulties with holding my knife and folk, cutting up food etc. 

Throughout my life I have had my strengths and weaknesses in reading and writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation etc. but I have always been weak at math. 

There are three types of Dyspraxia in people all ages,

 but I think it is possible to all three.

 I am not an attention seeker but truthfully 

I face difficulties from all three or have done.  

I believe for example; that Dyspraxia does not 

It just affects the outside body but the inside too,

 as I have faced movement difficulties my throat, 

tongue, as well as mouth and lips to speak where

 some I have overcome but then my cancer Operation

 did a bit of damage to the inside of my throat even

 though they took the lump out My speech has gone

 through good and bad days. It is hard to say what

 caused the lump as my Mum noticed it,

 when I was a small child, but doctors 

did not know what it was until I was twenty – three. 

 Motor skills As for outside difficulties 

I can throw a ball does not catch a ball,

 poor picking up objects, poor gripping,

 poor handwriting skills, poor English, poor math’s skills,

 spelling etc., which is like Dyslexia on the education and writing side. 

It also has such physical difficulties and poor rhythm,

 poor body awareness, bumping into things, people etc.

 Dyspraxia used to be known as clumsy syndrome. 

Physiotherapy is needed for muscle difficulty. 

Verbal Dyspraxia is difficult in speech pronouncing words,

 not necessarily all words where people get good

 and bad days according to my research,

 which may vary from person to person. 

Oral Dyspraxia, like Verbal Dyspraxia,

 is a speech difficulty, but Oral Dyspraxia 

affects the mouth, tongue, and lips. 

 I think with both those types of 

Dyspraxia, speech and language therapy needs to be involved.