Comments on: Is your child ‘Dyspraxic’?

By: Oriel

Oriel — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:13:45 +0000

Hello, my name is Oriel and I am 14 years old and next year I will be doing my GCSEs
All my friends at school have been telling me that I am dyspraxic. I always thought I had something slightly wrong with me but I had no idea what. So one day I decided to look up an online test. This is how I came across this website so I did the test and I got 33/35 I don’t know whether i should go for a test or not because they are quite expensive and also I have already wasted £400 on a dyslexic test and it turns out I don’t have it. All bar 2 of the 35 apply to me and all of my friends agree.
Please help me I don’t know what to do

By: Joline Verhaegen

Joline Verhaegen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:49:37 +0000

Hi, my name is Joline. I’m almost 18 years old. I did the test and I ticked 26 out of 35 boxes. Now here’s the problem: I live in Belgium. Because of the severe lack of information and possible online tests in Dutch, I had to search all English sites. This is one of the best tests I came across. Can you tell me what to do? Do I have to contact a doctor and let them run some more tests? My family and myself have thought of the possibility that I have Asperger and Dyspraxia? Is that even possible?

Thanks
Joline

By: hayley

hayley — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:56:47 +0000

my son is 5 nearly 6 and has had a assesment it revealed he has the mental age of a 3 years old he cant do hardly anything for himself yet and still has very poor speech. i feel frustrated because i feel im not helping enough, i dont know what else i can do, could anyone help

many thanks

Hayley

By: Gergina Chobanova-Wilkinson

Gergina Chobanova-Wilkinson — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:55:23 +0000

Hi,

My daughter is 7 and her symptoms are very much like Dyspraxia. I have looked at the tick box test and most of the situations are applicable to my daughter.She is 7 years old. I am writing to you to find out how I can get her properly diagnosed and to find out what treatments are available for her condition.We are leaving in UK.

I hope you can assist and look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Gergy

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:45:40 +0000

Hi Dawn, I just want to add my gratitude for you site, the post and the comments here. I suspect my 6 year old son has Dyspraxia – and have been finding it hard to think of what to do next. So I appreciate very much the advice here, and will be downloading your ebook as soon as I can.

I too would love a list of therapists – but I’m glad you’ve said that an OT is the way to go. I’ll definitely be looking into this.

Unfortunately our school experience this year was a total shocker, so I’ve had him at home for the last 6 months, but I’m just glad to have realised what was going on, so we can now seek the right kind of help!

Thanks very much again. And if anyone out there is in Perth, and can direct me to a good OT here, I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks again. Best regards,

Anna.

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:46:51 +0000

hi. i have just done the test for my 8 yr old son. i ticked 30 boxes. he has had some occupational therapy and the school are aware of his struggles, but only see problems in the work side of things and his co-ordination, when really this affects every area of his life every day and always has done. i am pretty sure he has dyspraxia and everyone agrees (g.p/school/occupational therapist) but i cannot get him assessed by a professional and really feel a diagnosis is necessary-for all we know it could be more than dyspraxia as shows signs of ADD or possible aspergers?…please please help. how do i go about getting a more formal assessment. every corner i turn i just hit closed doors. please help.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:56:06 +0000

I tested postive in 30 of the boxes and I want to get tested but I don’t know how to tell me parents. Could anyone help me?

By: Sarah seviour

Sarah seviour — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:08:53 +0000

Hi, I have just done the 8 – 13 yrs test for my 12/13 yr old son, and I have scored him with 20 out of the 35 points on your test, he is now in year 8 of secondary school and seems to be coping with a little 1 2 1 help in English at the mo, but I worry as the work gets harder that he will cope less well, does these results warrant further investigation? I do also have a younger son who was diagnosed with autism and learning difficulties when he was four, this was a very straight forward diagnosis,and straight onto special needs schooling, I don’t really know which route to take for the older son if dyspraxia is a possibility.
Any guidance appreciated
Sarah

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:49:15 +0000

Hi I am a 29 year old mother of my fantastic son who is 7 next week I done the teat and have come up with 24 of the signs, my son has a social worker and I have a surport worker as I have had probs with with son for birth, they thought he was like what he is due to autism , but I no it’s not and so do they now but all of what I had read this sounds like my son, I don’t no what to do now , I have done parenting courses been told it was my parenting skills I need some help, myson had a bad first to years of his life due to violence he saw from his dad, but I don’t think it was that please can some one help me ,’.

By: jodyleigh mitchell

jodyleigh mitchell — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:17:16 +0000

i am 18 years old just took your test nd scored 24/36 i have not looked into this posibility before but i have always had trouble spelling and find it hard to concentrate especially when there are distractions how can i find out if i am dyspraxic