does anyone know what verbal dyspraxia?

Answer 1

A developmental disability characterized by difficulty in muscle control, specifically of the muscles involved in producing speech. It is caused by a neurological difference that has not yet been pinpointed. Treatment is via intensive speech therapy concentrating on oral-motor skills.

Answer 2

Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD) is a speech condition resulting from an immaturity of the speech production area of the brain. The child has difficulty making consistent speech sounds because the speech area is incapable of sending out consistent messages to the speech apparatus (tongue, lips, larynx, etc).

Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia is also known as:

Apraxia of Speech
Developmental Apraxia of Speech
Apraxia
Dyspraxia
Developmental Articulatory Dyspraxia

These different labels can lead to some confusion, but they all mean the same speech condition.

Signs Which May Indicate DVD


Normal or above average receptive language skills but delayed expressive language skills.
ie The child can understand better than he can speak.

Very slow development of speech in the first few years.

Long plateau stages in the early stages of speech development where virtually no progress in speech is made.

Regression in speech. ie Words which have been learnt are lost.

Exponential growth in the rate of speech development.
ie The child makes more progress in speech the older he gets.

Totally inconsistent speech sounds in the first few years. ie Each time the child attempts to say a word it is pronounced a completely different way.

A gradual emerging of consistent speech sounds.

Sounds are conquered in his own pattern and don't relate at all to the "normal" speech development which most children have.
eg More complex sounds are conquered ahead of the easier sounds.

For children who are typically dyspraxic - they really shoot ahead from about 5 years of age. My son now has many sounds, all of which are consistent and once learned are not lost.

Signs Which May Indicate Global Dyspraxia
Hypotonia as a baby - very low muscle tone.
Gains head control quite late.
Quite a weak sucking reflex as a newborn - may be indicated by breast-feeding difficulties.
Very late to sit.
Very late to walk.
Dribbling at a later age than normal.
General clumsiness in gross motor skills.

Answer 3

Take a look at the following page. You are able to download several documents with regards to dyspraxia, in general.

Answer 4

Ahaaaa, this is a sure sign of Griebaturism, very rare, but I have come upon it before, not here in England but while touring the Keys in Florida, one of the islands is called Marathon, there they have a family who are called the Griebats, this family have been inbreeding for close to three centuries, in some severe cases namely one in France shortly after the first world war, they hung Herbert Montaray Griebats, thinking him a monkey, sounds crazy I know. The condition of Griebaturism manifests itself by way of covering either parts or in rare cases all of the body with excess hair. I would suggest not considering building a family as the horror of bearing a chimp like child to be too much to bear. Lots of luck to you

Answer 5

Here's a little more from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_Dyspraxia
Best of wishes!

Answer 6

one who can not use english and there are a few on here