{"id":345331,"date":"2023-07-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/dont-confuse-clumsiness-and-dyspraxia\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:00:00","slug":"dont-confuse-clumsiness-and-dyspraxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/dont-confuse-clumsiness-and-dyspraxia\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Confuse Clumsiness and Dyspraxia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affecting <strong>3% to 6% of children, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/la-dyspraxie-trouble-dacquisition-de-la-coordination\/\"><strong>dyspraxia<\/strong><\/a><strong> is a learning disorder<\/strong> that disrupts their movements, both in daily life and in school activities: struggling to coordinate their movements, these children have trouble managing both time and the space around them. Clumsy movements or a motor disorder, <strong>how do you tell simple clumsiness apart from this developmental issue<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<h2>Clumsiness in everyday small movements<\/h2>\n<p>Clumsiness shows up very <strong>differently from one child to another<\/strong>: they may drop objects they pick up, bump into things while moving around or miss steps, struggle to tie their shoelaces or button up a jumper, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>These difficulties reflect <strong>poor bodily coordination<\/strong>. Traditionally, when a child has <strong>trouble developing fine motor skills and coordination<\/strong>, it&#8217;s because they weren&#8217;t stimulated enough in their early years, much like a child kept too long in a pushchair who will struggle to learn to walk. Note that over-stimulation can also cause children to skip stages in motor development, which can likewise lead to this kind of clumsiness.<\/p>\n<p>In these cases, it&#8217;s best <strong>not to point out these difficulties<\/strong> (especially in public), but rather to offer <strong>activities to work on walking and\/or fine motor skills<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>When clumsiness shows up at school\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>When a child&#8217;s clumsiness extends beyond daily life and <strong>repeats itself in other areas<\/strong>, it&#8217;s worth staying alert to certain signs that might point to dyspraxia. Even though symptoms vary widely from one child to another, some are typical of this learning disorder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The child doesn&#8217;t like construction toys<\/strong>, preferring imaginative play instead;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drawing and other graphic activities are difficult<\/strong>, they can&#8217;t draw a triangle and their drawings are poor and badly structured;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Handwriting is slow and clumsy<\/strong>, with badly formed letters and exercise books that look messy and untidy;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The child struggles to handle objects<\/strong> (keys, scissors, a compass\u2026) <strong>and to take part in hobbies that require coordination<\/strong> (playing marbles, playing a musical instrument, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dys-positif.fr\/comment-apprendre-le-velo-a-un-enfant-dyspraxique\/\">riding a bike<\/a>\u2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dyspraxia, the hidden disability of &#8220;clumsy&#8221; children<\/h2>\n<p>Traditionally, <strong>a 5-year-old<\/strong> can copy a triangle, write out their first name, get dressed alone and use a knife. <strong>By 6<\/strong>, they can write their first name in cursive, copy a diamond shape, brush their own hair, blow their nose, spread butter on bread\u2026 <strong>By 12<\/strong>, their dexterity matches that of an adult.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect your child&#8217;s clumsiness goes beyond what&#8217;s typical, don&#8217;t hesitate to share your concerns with a <strong>doctor or paediatrician<\/strong>, <strong>who will refer you to a specialist<\/strong>, whether that&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/online-speech-therapy\/\">speech and language therapist<\/a>, an occupational therapist, or a psychomotor therapist.<\/p>\n<p>With an early diagnosis of dyspraxia, your child can benefit from <strong>appropriate rehabilitation<\/strong> that offers solutions to help ease some of their difficulties. For the most severe cases, they may be able to access <a href=\"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/les-amenagements-pour-dyspraxiques\/\"><strong>accommodations<\/strong><\/a> to help them have a calmer school experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affecting 3% to 6% of children, dyspraxia is a learning  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":345332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speech-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}