Don\'t be sceptical. Help and intervention now are very important for your child. I don\'t know about in the US, but in the UK there are organisations such as the Dyspraxia Foundation (http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/) and DANDA, Developmental Adult Neuro-Diversity Association, (http://www.danda.org.uk)that have been very helpful to me as a dyspraxic. I would also recommend joining YahooGroups as there are several useful discussion/email groups on dyspraxia, some run by people from the organisations I mentioned, and all busier than this site. It obviously depends on your child, but I found physical therapy beneficial. But my greatest asset was the support of my family, not only emotional etc but mainly making me try harder and do things even though I felt I was failing. I cannot stress this enough. I know other adults with dyspraxia and similiar conditions whose parents have tried to keep their kids happy by letting them give up on things and not get upset, and they are in a bad place, as adults they cannot cope or deal with life at all and now their parents are old or gone there is nobody to coddle and protect them any more. So my advice would be to encourage your child to try hard even if they themselves do not feel they can do it, even if it feels like you are being mean, because in the end they will surprise you and make you proud and will be much more independent as an adult. The doctors told my mum that I would always be sub normal and would not read or write, but because of her persistence I went to mainstream school, studied for my degree and now hold a good job. The impulse to protect and coddle and keep your child happy must be strong, but it will make them a lot happier in the long run if they can be more independent and proud of themselves, and this means a long hard road ahead for both of you.

Speech therapy was the best thing I\'ve ever done for my son. He was diagnosed at about the same age your child was, but for kids with apraxia they don\'t just \"grow out\" of the disorder. My son was missing 14 age-appropriate sounds when he began therapy. Now he no longer goes; his therapist cleared him.
A GREAT website is apraxia-kids.org. PLEASE go there; it helped me to decide to start my son\'s therapy.

My son is 4 and has dyspraxia. Early intervention is essential. Even if you have doubts, I would make sure your child gets as much help as he can. If the diagnosis is wrong, your son will benefit from the speech therapy program and physio program - even they are wrong and it is just a delay that he will outgrow.

If they are right, you will lose precious time and the early years are key. It is so much easier to retrain speech etc at an early age than after your child reaches school or after they have become so discouraged that they give up and have low self-esteem. If you look at the dyspraxia sites mentioned in the other posts and the message boards such as this, you will see the benefits of early intervention and how much time has been wasted when people were unable to get a diagnosis and had to fight for it. You have the diagnosis, so I think you should use it to your advantage. I put my son on omega 3-6-9 capsules as soon as I found out he had dyspraxia. I doubted that they would work. However, the only side effects were supposed to be brittle nails and shiny hair. So I tried it and it was one of the best choices I ever made! He started using more words, his coordination improved and his hand tremors decreased significantly within 3 weeks. I don't mean to preach, it's just that I can't see a downside to getting the treatment and the potential benefits are huge and so important to your child. Every day, I thank God that my son has had almost two years of help and has improved vastly as a result. He still has a long ways to go, but at least he isn't 6 and just starting treatment. Good luck with your son!

It is amazing how early they can find out if your child has dyspraxia. My son went through a terrible time before anyone diagnosed him, hes now 17, and I really do wish they had detected it earlier so he could have got more help with it.

I had speech therapy 47 years ago helped me speak but ended with posh accent so got beat up for that instead of for being slow and stutterring. LOL

I've started adding about 1/4 cup Flasseed Meal to the dry ingredients, to give more fiber.

Be sure and try this bread - it is a good keeper, and makes good French Toast !!