Dyspraxia essay

Learning disabilities are conditions that last with the person for the rest of their lives. Dyspraxia is one of the most common LD’s in the world. And nearly 6% of children have it and mainly boys [reading]. Dyspraxia is a movement disorder that affects the person’s actions and makes it hard for them to do easy tasks because they can’t really focus or concentrate on what they are doing just like holding scissors it becomes a hard task for some of them although it’s easy for others. Dyspraxia disrupts people’s lives and effects their daily movements, that could be helped by family support and experts help.

Dyspraxia has a lot of effects on the disabled person’s life. For young children it is a really huge problem because they may avoid crawling or rolling over and may not like to do anything that involves motor skills [reading].As a result, which that may affect their future ability to walk, talk and eat properly. Also they would bump into some objects without noticing and they have poor sense of direction [reading]. And when it comes to children who are in school might have a problem developing their social skills and making friends, and they might have coordination problems and that may affect badly in physical classes “sports”, they find it hard to have a conversation with someone so they avoid making conversations and talking to people. Furthermore, to teenagers and adults they might have a difficulty in planning, sending messages, driving, cocking or completing their daily chores.

Dyspraxia can’t be cured [listening] but it could be helped by some treatments. Prevention from childhood is a very good effective way to have. Trying to explain to the disabled person about their disability and making them have a background information about it may help them understand their state and what they’re going through so that might help them to accept what they have and try to improve their selves. In order to help the LD person to move with his life, improve and succeed, they should try and work with speech and physical therapists [reading]. Also, family support has a really big role in their achievement because it builds their self esteem and they could have someone to trust and depend on while they find it difficult to communicate with others.

In conclusion, people with dyspraxia face a lot of difficulties in planning, achieving fine motor skills and sending messages [listening]. On the other hand there are a lot of ways that can help them improve in their lives like going to therapists and asking for exports help. In my opinion, I think that the most important factor is the family support because with having someone beside them that they can rely on and express their feeling to has a great effect on their ability to improve.

Citations : reading : http://www.ncld.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=466