| Welcome! This site provides some straight talk about Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia. I am the mother of a dyspraxic child and have learnt quite a bit about dyspraxia over the past few years. The aim of this site is to share what I have learnt and to provide encouragement to other parents of dyspraxic children. - Jackie |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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| * Symptoms such as dribbling and weakness in the muscles of the speech apparatus (lips, tongue, etc) may indicate Dysarthria. Simply put, Dysarthria is where the speech muscles themselves, are weak, uncoordinated or paralysed. |
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