Dyspraxia

Dyspraxia is when a person has difficulties with motor coordination. It affects people’s fine and gross motor skills. Dyspraxia affects people in different ways. People with dyspraxia can also experience difficulties with their memory, planning, organizing and carrying out movements in the right order. It can affect articulation and speech and perception in some people.

Resources

There are so many fabulous resources online for parents to access. There are some free information resources on the following site on ADHD, Auditory Processing, Memory, Dyslexia, Learning Difficulties, as well as many other learning processes.

https://www.learnfasthq.com/free-learning-resources

Vision Checklist

If you are concerned about your child’s learning and/or vision be aware of the following signs and symptoms:

• one eye drifts or aims in a different direction than the other. This can be very subtle
• turns or tilts head while reading or during other visual activities
• head is frequently tilted to one side or one shoulder is noticeably higher
• squinting or closing of one eye
• excessive blinking or squinting
• poor visual/motor coordination skills (often called, "hand-eye coordination")
• problems judging distances while moving in space, frequently bumps into things or drops things
• becomes easily confused when in motion
• frequently loses things

While reading or doing close work your child:

• holds the reading material or object too close
• closes one eye or covers eye with hand
• twists or tilts head toward book or object so as to favour one eye
• uses finger or ruler to read
• frequently loses place and/or skips or repeats lines
• fatigues easily and/or becomes drowsy
• rubs eyes during or after periods of the reading or close work
• reports that words move on page or run together
• has a tendency to knock things over on a desk or table
• exhibits avoidance behaviours

Child demonstrates or reports:

• headaches or eyestrain
• nausea or dizziness
• motion sickness or car sickness

DOUBLE VISION!

If your child reports seeing double, please take your child for a binocular vision evaluation.

Early detection of visual problems is vital for successful learning!