Dyspraxia

Dyspraxia is a disorder that affects gross and fine motor skills in adults and children. It can be characterized by difficulties in muscle control. It makes learning simple things, such as riding a bike, very difficult.  A person will have difficulty in sports and many physical activities.  Someone may appear clumsy, because of poor balance.  Someone can be distressed by loud noises or repeated sounds, like tapping a show.  They may have difficulties putting pieces of a puzzle together.  Learning to drive can be take a long to master and some may not be able to drive at all.  

Some strategies that might help with someone who has dyspraxia are to go to a quiet place for testing, providing ear plugs for noisy events and  try to avoid concerts.  Joining sports through clubs and schools such as swimming and gymnastics is great to help develop motor skills.  Swimming is a great sport to get all your muscles coordinated.  Gymnastics takes a lot of practice, but has a lot of the gross and fine muscle control development that is needed. 

Dyspraxia can also affect speech and language since producing speech requires fine muscle control. This is an example of how Dyspraxia relates to Language Processing Disorder. You can find more information about dyslexia at the Dyspraxia Foundation.