The RCN is looking for members who are affected by dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia and are willing to share their stories. (Source: Royal College of Nursing - UK- National News)

The RCN is looking for members who are affected by dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia and are willing to share their stories. (Source: Royal College of Nursing - UK- National News)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

We describe the speech profiles of hemispherectomized participants characterizing their intelligibility, articulation, phonological speech errors, dysarthric features, and execution and sequencing of orofacial speech and non-speech movements. Thirteen participants who had undergone hemispherectomy (six left, seven right; nine with congenital, four with acquired hemiplegia; operated between four months and 13years) were investigated. Results showed that all participants were intelligible but showed a mild dysarthric profile characterized by neuromuscular asymmetry and reduced quality and coordination of movements, features that are characteristic of adult-onset unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria, flaccid-ataxic variant. In addition, one left and four right hemispherectomy cases presen...

O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar o papel das variáveis linguísticas na ocorrência dos processos de substituição na fala de sujeitos com dispraxia verbal (DV). Para isso, foi realizada a análise fonológica de sete sujeitos com idades entre 2:6 (anos:meses) e 4:2, com hipótese diagnóstica de DV. As ocorrências dos processos de substituições usuais e idiossincráticas, de assimilações e de variabilidade articulatória foram analisadas estatisticamente por meio do pacote computacional VARBRUL. A variável extensão da palavra foi estatisticamente significante para a ocorrência de assimilações e substituições não usuais, indicando que as variantes trissilábicas e polissilábicas foram as maiores favorecedoras de ocorrência desses processos. A tonicidade foi estat...

To assess the spectrum of movement disorders, we reviewed video recordings and charts of 57 patients with Glut-1 deficiency. Eighty-nine percent of patients with Glut-1 deficiency syndrome had a disturbance of gait. The most frequent gait abnormalities were ataxic-spastic and ataxic. Action limb dystonia was observed in 86% of cases and mild chorea in 75%. Cerebellar action tremor was seen in 70% of patients, myoclonus in 16%, and dyspraxia in 21%. Nonepileptic paroxysmal events occurred in 28% of patients, and included episodes of ataxia, weakness, Parkinsonism and nonkinesogenic dyskinesias. The 40 patients (70%) who were on the ketogenic diet had less severe gait disturbances but more dystonia, chorea, tremor, myoclonus, dyspraxia, and paroxysmal events compared with the 17 patients on ...

We report on a former small-for-gestational-age preterm infant with no obvious hypoxic event during perinatal life. The follow-up was normal until elementary school. He had to spend 2 years in 1st grade and exhibited some behavioral troubles. At the age of 9, he was suspected of suffering from dyspraxia and was referred to a pediatrics rehabilitation center. IQ and neuropsychological tests were administered and showed selective autobiographical memory impairment defining developmental amnesia. Despite a typical clinical presentation, brain MRI was normal, including the hippocampal area. This observation underlines the need for a prolonged follow-up until school age to assess the outcome of preterm infants. Otherwise, the evaluation will be limited to motor impairment. Particular attention ...

NHS Choices videos are short clips presenting the experiences of patients living with a particular condition, or explanations and advice from professionals. The videos are aimed at patients and are produced in line with the NHS Choices editorial policy. James was diagnosed in 2005 with dyspraxia, a disability that can affect movement and coordination. In this video, his mother describes James’s symptoms and the methods used to improve his condition. (Source: Neurological Conditions Specialist Library)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Authors: Mazeau M Despite its frequency, little is known about dyspraxia. Dyspraxia, which represents disorders in development and learning movements, within the context of a deficiency in the management of spatial information (in children whose verbal intelligence is spared), is often a severe handicap at school and in social life. Dyspraxia must be distinguished from "common" difficulties of unmotivated children at school, with which it is often confused. Hence, the diagnosis must correspond to rigorous methodology. And one should avoid proposing endless training for the deficient action (writing, getting dressed...); indeed such strategies only lead to short-term 'pseudo' progress, without any long term efficacy on the educational success of these intelligent children. To the contra...