Dyspraxia (also known as Clumsy Child Syndrome, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Perceptuo-motor Dysfunction, Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Motor Learning Difficulty) is a believed (but unproven) immaturity of the brain though to result in messages not being properly transmitted to the body. It is believed by advocates of the theory to affect at least 2% of the British population in varying degrees of severity with 70% of those affected being male. Symptoms of dyspraxia may include some of: clumsiness; poor posture; awkward walking; confusion over which hand to use; difficulties in throwing or catching a ball; sensitivity to touch; finding some clothes uncomfortable; poor short term memory; poor body awareness; difficulties with reading and writing; inability to hold a pen or pencil properly; poor sense of direction; lack of balance; slow development; inability to answer simple questions even though they know the answer; speech problems, slow to learn to speak or incoherent speech; phobias and obsessive behaviour;
impatience; intolerance to having hair or teeth brushed, nails and hair cut; plasters too uncomfortable to wear. Though advocates of dyspraxia claim that different sufferers will suffer various symptoms, not all suffering all or even the same symptoms. Older sufferers typically display signs of very immature behaviour. Recent discoveries have found that often sufferers of dyspraxia hallucinate taste sensations when speaking, that is pronouncing different words gives rise to different tastes in the mouth. The Bronte sisters were thought to suffer from dyspraxia, and often sufferers excell in language and literature, while facing severe difficulties with inter-personal relationships and motor coordination. Research Dyspraxia
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Research Dyspraxia