Comments on: Verbal Dyspraxia

By: nicola

nicola — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:39:32 +0000

hi,my six year old daughter has just being diagnosed by her private salt with verbal dyspraxia.she had being attending early intervention but got little theraphy ,they said she had developmental delay as she was late to walk(23 months)she had an assesment before she left and they diagnosed at risk of mild learning disability but as her profile was flutuated up and down and it was realised after the assesment that she was severley farsighted this may have had an impact on how she performed but the problem i have now is she does not qualify for a place in a speech & language unit because of this assesment as intelligence must be average or above,i feel she has been let down,she is such a sociable happy little girl and i don t want her to loose her confidence and was wondering has anyone any advise for me …thank you

By: Kerri

Kerri — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:39:18 +0000

I have verbal dyspraxia and although I have a full vocabulary now I still struggle to form sentences at time but I laugh it off and start again taking my time. I do not feel as if there is something wrong with me and fit in with my friends. I am now 20 years old and living life the same as all my friends. Speech therapy really does work…. am prove! Good luck everyone else xxxx

By: honor

honor — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:21:43 +0000

I had verbal Dyspraxia as a child, I am now 18 and have not had to have help for at least 8 years! They said that I wouldn’t be able to speak until I was 15 but it just takes alot of time and pratice and I am sure that it will be okay!! Good Luck everyone that is dealing with this problem!! I am sure that with the right help that you/your child will be able to get through it!!!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:21:08 +0000

I agree with Sam. Labelling something a learning disability or disorder adds nothing positive to an already emotional issue. That’s the type of goofball thinking that women, blacks, chinese, gays and any other minority suffered through the past.

By: Nike Phisher

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By: sam

sam — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:05:22 +0000

I’m 17, and I have Dyspraxia, and going into my HSC. I went through speech therapy when i was young, but it didn’t work with me. My twin can speak “normally” now, as can my older brother, but i was left behind. Its irritating when no-one can understand you though, and you say simple words and the expressions on others faces kill me each time, like they cannot understand a word i am trying to say. It’s okay, i guess – “I’m used to it.”. What is annoying is the fact no one tries to help, so it’s nice that all you people are worrying and trying to help those special to you. I have gone through more speech therapy since starting high school, but it was just embarrassing to me now; and didn’t work, but that was probably because the lessons were canceled because “why should we spend that amount of money when it obviously does nothing?” Having Dyspraxia is difficult, I’m not going to lie. I find spelling a big effort, and even though I’m even in the extension English class, I’m appalling at it. I must have clicked on spell check at least forty times while making this post, and i absolutely hate talking in class; when a teacher asks me to read from the text book i just want to shrink inside, because none of them understand. The faces they give are the worst, the pitying eyes; i wish no-one was capable of having that expression. But, what I’m finding now is, when i was younger, i wasn’t aware i was speaking any differently from anyone else; i hear myself speaking like everyone else, which is hard to fix if you don’t realize what is wrong. It was when i listened to a recording of my voice on a phone in year seven i realized i spoke differently, still, and since then it has been worrying me, and becoming more apparent. Now I’m finding I’m concentrating more on what to say, which is difficult, and confusing, and i often get confused where I’m up to in a conversation. It’s harder because one of my subjects is Japanese, and how am i going to do a speaking test when i can hardly speak English? When i finally met someone else with dyspraxia, it didn’t help, because his reaction was “finally! someone else with my disorder!” That was about ten years ago, and i still remember it vividly. Whatever you do, don’t call it a disorder. Don’t treat them differently. Don’t do anything that could hurt them, because it is already a difficult enough life having dyspraxia without having to attempt to cope with others expectations. As you can see, i can write down what i want to say perfectly fine, with the exception of spelling. It is hard, but i’ve now gotten over other people’s expectations. Why should i have to match everyone else? Everyone’s different, and though i hate it, it is me now.

Didn’t mean to sound so pessimistic, but i didn’t want to lie. I do every other day in every other conversation.

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By: krissy

krissy — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:42:50 +0000

My daughter will be 4 next month and she can not talk at all, well she does sometimes say the ending of the words that she is trying to say. Otherwise she squeels at things or points at stuff, we are in the process of trying to get her a statement, but it is very difficult indeed we don’t know weather or not she has got verbal dyspraxia, we are still trying to find out. Without the statment she will have to go to a main stream school, and I know that she will not be able to cope.

By: Lindi

Lindi — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:04:12 +0000

I have been very lucky in the suport I have received for my son, who turns 3 in June. At the age of 14 months, it was picked up that he was developmentally delayed in all areas of his development and so an entourage of support was given in the form of portage, physio and a speech and language therapist. Last week he was diagnosed with Verbal Dyspraxia which we had all suspected. I am hoping that he will get a place in a local Nursery in Sept which has an excellent speech and language unit, so that he can get the imput he needs. It’s very sad that some people on here have had to struggle to get support and I hope they will get the help and support that they need for their child.

By: jacinda rule

jacinda rule — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:08:20 +0000

My son is 6 1/2 yrs old. He started talking at 2 but when his brother was born went backwards. They thought he just had a speech delay. When he was 3 yrs he started early intervention. In 4 yr old kinder his early intervention teacher made my son a picture book of pictures for him to use. When he started prep at a main stream school he improved. Could not talk at the strat of the year but at the end could count to 10 and say his name. He gets a lot of support at school as he has his funding which helps him. Now my son is in grade 1 and is doing very well. He still can not say the letter c or K. I