To fully understand what it is, I suggest a little game. You are right-handed, take a pen with your left hand. You are left-handed, do the opposite. We are going to do a dictation at normal speed: “For a long time, I went to bed early. » You will find it quite amusing but precisely, not for long.
Because, if you play the game, you will apply yourself, expending ten times more energy than the others for an extremely mediocre result. Where the experience is no longer funny at all is when I’m going to come behind your back and say to you: “You’re very late! And, please, apply yourself a little: your dictation is a rag! Make efforts ! »
You have just experienced a few minutes of the life of a dyspraxic child. He suffers from a coordination disorder: the brain does not automate gestures. Each time he writes a letter, he must remember its form and reinvent it. Same thing for tying his shoelaces, cutting his meat, buttoning his shirt. Everything takes time, everything takes effort.
Invisible disability
According to health insurance, “dyspraxia is common and affects 5% to 7% of children aged 5-11”. In fact, it is frequently combined with dyslexia (difficulty in recognizing and reproducing written language), dyscalculia (disorder in learning to calculate), dysorthography… To simplify, we will talk about “dys” generically. And these dys are numerous, you have 2 or 3 per class.
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