What kind of disability would you say dyspraxia is?

Answer 1

Dyspraxia is a motor skill problem and can vary from person to person, however most suffer from poor co-ordination, balance, tend to be clumsiness, may have visual & verbal problems, including behavioral problems, social skills, difficulty with reading, writing and memory problems.

This condition I would assume be under the umbrella of developmental & learning disabilities

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I should have pointed out that I am a qualified Youth & Disability Support Worker.

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With respect Crabby, the asker is asking about Dyspraxia not Dyslexia. So there fore the information I gave is based on Dyspraxia, which is from the web sites I gave.
Being Dyslexic myself I know the difference between Dyspraxia and Dyslexia.

Answer 2

In cases where it develops prior to the age of 22, in the US it is a developmental disability. If it is acquired later on in life due to a stroke or a head injury it would likely be categorized as a traumatic brain injury, but it would depend on the cause.

Answer 3

for the most an invisible disability which makes it even harder to bear. People dont believe there is a disability unless they can see it, if someone looks "normal" they must be and are just faking it or being a real pain in the butt. :-(

Answer 4

Dyspraxia is a congenital communicative disorder which affects one's ability to initiate and/or sequence speech sounds. It can occur independently or in conjunction with developmental dysphasia.

Answer 5

With respect to some of the other answerers, Dyslexia is classed as a perceptual or learning disability. It is NOT--as georgie says, a problem with motor skills. It is also NOT a "commucative" disorder--people with dyslexia are often excellant at verbal and other forms of communication, and show little or no difference in cognitive (intellectual) ability.

Symptomatically, dyslexia usually manifests itself in terms of having trouble reading and/or writing--inverting letters, etc. The causes are not fully understood--but current knowledge indicates it is a problem with the brain's ability to process/co-ordinate certain types of visual information.

It does create problems in that it is often not recognized--people with dyslexia aare often considered "slow learners," or labeled as undermotivated, etc. And there is still a great deal of stereotyping of persons with this impairment. They can learn--and many are highly successful, given the opprotunity to have information presented in a format they can handle.