Dyspraxia

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Sonny has dyspraxia. This is an impairment in the ability to coordinate and sequence muscle movements involved in speech. It does not necessarily mean there is any impairment in language understanding or expression, but means that while the person can make the muscle movements require for speech, they cannot co-ordinate them to make fluent speech.

Often characterised by:

• Searching movements of the lips and tongue when making sounds
• Mixing up the order of sounds in words, for example “hopsital” for “hospital”
• Getting “stuck” on words