Description

A practical working guide for parents, teachers and allied professionals, offering an understanding of dyspraxia, its underlying causes, strategies and helpful advice.

  • Explains the terms used in dyspraxia, for example, proprioception, bilateral integration, vestibular, postural, cross lateral and tactile defensiveness.

  • Outlines the impact that these issues can have in the class or home setting.

  • Includes practical advice and strategies.

  • This handbook will illuminate dyspraxia issues for people who have to deal with the outcome of having this condition. It provides medical/physiological understanding of the condition and will facilitate access to education and everyday living for the children in question.

Age: 4-16

Chapters

  • Introduction

  • Dyspraxia: an overview

  • Sensory integration

  • Eye and hand skills

  • Visual perception

  • Bilateral integration: working both sides of the body together

  • Primitive or baby reflexes

  • Daily living (self-care) skills

  • Additional exercises, activities and therapy