tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post4159913765072025509..comments2024-01-28T00:21:38.809-08:00Comments on We Are Like Your Child: Movement teachers: I am your dream student. I am your nightmare student. (Crosspost)Alyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-10488798620959188622015-11-20T17:53:45.444-08:002015-11-20T17:53:45.444-08:00I am not articulate and still work to change that ...I am not articulate and still work to change that at age 60. I got through grad school as an old lady and hardly said a peep unless I had to present. Now that I have a job where I have to present and train staff I have to get better and I will. The key to changing "wiring" is to practice practice practice and then try novel variation of those things you have down pat. It's so interesting to me. Lots of work and I get depressed about it sometimes, but sometimes I just think its so cool what we can do if we put our minds to it.Lynettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12113459576196196897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-62035604114305856472015-11-20T17:50:47.360-08:002015-11-20T17:50:47.360-08:00My daughter had extreme motor planning problems be...My daughter had extreme motor planning problems between 2 and 4 years. She had intensive programming that helped her with imitation and motor control. She was in swim classes from age 3 til 6 when we put her in swim team. She swam all through school with a swim club and then on her high school team. She loves dance and took dance classes off and on. She also took karate. She played soccer and basketball but did not excel, more probably due to cognitive deficits than motor planning at this point. <br />In her teen years she was able to master difficult motor movements, she became very proficient at Dance Dance Revolution. She is able to learn new motor movements pretty easily. More easily than I can. I have two left feet and I have to work incredible hard to learn motor movements. I learned to do a flip turn in the pool at age 52. My daughter helped me learn. My point here is that I believe some dyspraxia can be improved through intensive practice if motivation is in place, be it intrinsic or extrinsic. I think starting super early is key. Lynettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12113459576196196897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-52376205166150329792015-11-15T11:16:44.225-08:002015-11-15T11:16:44.225-08:00Thank you so much. Just found this blog. You'v...Thank you so much. Just found this blog. You've described my 4 year old daughter in 20 years time. So very determined. So very cheerful. Having to try 10 times harder than everyone else. She loves dance and gymnastics. Wonderful post.Anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16663118805690528663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-61617048829760372192015-10-21T15:30:28.303-07:002015-10-21T15:30:28.303-07:00I used the term 'no longer function as' pr...I used the term 'no longer function as' pretty intentionally. The dyspraxic...crap is still there. But there has been enough fancy pants connection building (my cerebellum is ridiculously active on SPECT & FMRI) that you have to go looking for something that doesn't borrow from them enough to tell that, oh, totally uncoordinated actually. If that makes sense?<br /><br />So like I am pants-awful at fencing because it does in 3 steps what literally everything Ive stuck with long enough says you do in one step. I've over learned "everything moves that way at once" and trying to do it NOT like that, oh god it's awful. <br /><br />Not a cure, though there's evidence that there's more movement connections than expected. But the outward appearance of coordination is there, & my library of movement (most useful term ever) lets me work around it with ease.<br /><br />I'm looking for an analogy here & it's not working. Sorta I guess like if you learn enough scripts you can pass as articulate even if outside of those scripts you're...really not? And in situations where you only need those scripts you can function as not language disabled? It's an illusion and can be a convincing one. <br /><br />words are hardNeurodivergent Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-91153459825188204142015-10-21T00:26:19.308-07:002015-10-21T00:26:19.308-07:00"None of that is exaggeration. I was born dys..."None of that is exaggeration. I was born dyspraxic. I no longer function as dyspraxic. I rewired my brain on my own."<br /><br />As a psychologist who is also diagnosed dyspraxic, I'm not just skeptical, but a bit cynical: the bit about 'rewiring (your) own brain on (your) own' ... your actual evidence that this is what you did is ... what, exactly?<br /><br />I'm not saying that you haven't worked hard: clearly you have. And well done on that. But if you have to make the same efforts still in learning that goes on in the psycho-motor domain, you're still dyspraxic. It may be that you don't have the developmental motor/praxis test scores that you previously had, but the chances are that you are now scoring in a sub-clinical range, rather than being no longer dyspraxic.<br /><br />Because dyspraxia doesn't get 'cured', which is what you seem to be implying by your statement that you no longer function as dyspraxic. Improvements to motor function can happen - but there's a reason why I'm a pretty decent drummer but I still cannot do a paradiddle to order: dyspraxia does not disappear.David N. Andrews M. Ed., C. P. S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361832306977383560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-1143661337950780452015-10-17T06:44:53.101-07:002015-10-17T06:44:53.101-07:00You would have had an even worse time in my first ...You would have had an even worse time in my first karate class than I did.<br /><br />I'm dyspraxic too, but not echopraxic, and I don't have all that inconsistency in my abilities. I can't imitate and can't switch sides without starting all over from scratch, but apart from that, my motor learning process is mostly normal, just a lot slower than usual. And even that was enough to get my karate instructors mad at me.Ettinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12391427859178500937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-89452727994393780192015-10-05T01:37:05.924-07:002015-10-05T01:37:05.924-07:00Thank you for this. Dyspraxia/ Developmental Coord...Thank you for this. Dyspraxia/ Developmental Coordination Disorder needs a louder voice. I am going to show this to my dyspraxic daughter.DCDivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10336211685232373920noreply@blogger.com