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20 Dec 2018, 11:59 pm

This is a question I posed on Quora to see what responses there were.

https://www.quora.com/Can-dyspraxia-mak ... r-thoughts

To quote the second person that replied :

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No. There’s been a lot of BS floating around the Internet to the effect that dyspraxia is a learning disorder or a symptom of autism. Like I said, BS.


Whilst I agree it's not a symptom of autism reading between the lines I sense he's dismissing any connection at all.

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But dyspraxia is a speech disorder. It is not a language or cognitive disorder.


He seems to think that dyspraxia is just a speech disorder, and has no cognitive effect, which contradicts the literature I've read.



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21 Dec 2018, 10:15 am

There seems to be a strong relationship between autism and dyspraxia/apraxia of speech (and other forms of apraxia, too). This is because it is primarily a neurological disorder.

That's the reason, sometimes, that an autistic person has difficulty speaking. It's not the autism, nor the intelligence of that person rather frequently---it's the dyspraxia.

I wonder if Ezra is in that situation. That he has difficulty speaking because of the dyspraxia, rather than the autism.



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22 Dec 2018, 10:23 am

Thanks for replying to what was,judging by the lack of response,obviously a stupid question.



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22 Dec 2018, 10:48 am

I'm both dyspraxic and autistic, and I seem to see a lot of other people who are as well. I definitely think they are related on some level.


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22 Dec 2018, 11:00 am

Years ago family members suggested that I might have dyspraxia. Years later aspergers seemed a better fit, and then I was officially dxd with aspergers. The point being that maybe there is some similarity or connection between the two. [shrug]



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22 Dec 2018, 2:04 pm

I thought dyspraxia was a coordination issue where you have troubles with your balance and you are clumsy. And google doesn't seem to agree what that person said.

Dyspraxia is also known as developmental coordination disorder.

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A childhood developmental disorder marked by clumsiness in otherwise healthy kids.
Rare
Fewer than 200,000 US cases per year
Treatment can help, but this condition can't be cured
Requires a medical diagnosis
Lab tests or imaging rarely required
Developmental coordination disorder may occur alone or with other developmental disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It usually continues into adulthood.
Symptoms include delays in sitting or walking. Children may find it difficult to jump or perform tasks such as tying shoelaces.
Treatment includes occupational and physical therapies to improve coordination.


Symptoms:

Requires a medical diagnosis
Symptoms include delays in sitting or walking. Children may find it difficult to jump or perform tasks such as tying shoelaces.
People may experience:
Muscular: problems with coordination, abnormality walking, flaccid muscles, or muscle weakness
Developmental: learning disability or speech delay in a child
Also common: anxiety, difficulty building and drawing things, persistent drooling, or speech impairment



You cannot have dyspraxia without any coordination issues. That is the whole root of the disorder. The rest are just side symptoms. Also dyspraxia diagnoses can't be made if symptoms are explained by autism. I was diagnosed with dyspraxia before autism.

All these web pages results disagrees with that person lol.


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22 Dec 2018, 2:16 pm

League_Girl wrote:
I thought dyspraxia was a coordination issue where you have troubles with your balance and you are clumsy. And google doesn't seem to agree what that person said.

Dyspraxia is also known as developmental coordination disorder.
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About:

A childhood developmental disorder marked by clumsiness in otherwise healthy kids.
Rare
Fewer than 200,000 US cases per year
Treatment can help, but this condition can't be cured
Requires a medical diagnosis
Lab tests or imaging rarely required
Developmental coordination disorder may occur alone or with other developmental disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It usually continues into adulthood.
Symptoms include delays in sitting or walking. Children may find it difficult to jump or perform tasks such as tying shoelaces.
Treatment includes occupational and physical therapies to improve coordination.


Symptoms:

Requires a medical diagnosis
Symptoms include delays in sitting or walking. Children may find it difficult to jump or perform tasks such as tying shoelaces.
People may experience:
Muscular: problems with coordination, abnormality walking, flaccid muscles, or muscle weakness
Developmental: learning disability or speech delay in a child
Also common: anxiety, difficulty building and drawing things, persistent drooling, or speech impairment



You cannot have dyspraxia without any coordination issues. That is the whole root of the disorder. The rest are just side symptoms. Also dyspraxia diagnoses can't be made if symptoms are explained by autism. I was diagnosed with dyspraxia before autism.

All these web pages results disagrees with that person lol.


Agreed, I think we are dealing with two separate, but similar, neurological disorders. I have very poor balance and am very clumsy. So is my son. We both have Aspergers. Neither of us had delays in speech or other learning difficulties, though, which I suspect may be the distinguishing feature of the two. Aspergers is not generally about cognitive deficits. Essentially, Aspies are often clumsy, not dyspraxic.