Parents Supporting Parents

Parents Supporting Parents

Finding the right support and understanding when you are a parent of a child or children with various special needs is an arduous task at best.

Even close family and friends as well intentioned as they may be, can sometimes add to the existing feeling of isolation and frustration.

This is another reason why I created this site, so that through this site parents can find support and understanding and strategize together on methods and approaches that have worked and have failed.

If you or someone you know would benefit from an ongoing support group, one that can meet face-to-face in casual setting once a month, and live in the Metro Vancouver Area, please let me know by emailing me through this site at Email:

DCD - Understanding is Key

Understanding DCD (also known as dyspraxia) is key to helping children with DCD succeed.

For clarification I felt it prudent to explain the difference between Dyspraxia and Apraxia.

Dyspraxia is the partial loss of the ability to co-ordinate and perform skilled, purposeful movements and gestures with normal accuracy.

Apraxia is the term that is used to describe the complete loss of this ability.

The following may be affected:

• Gross and fine motor skills.
• Motor planning and the organization of movement (planning what to do and how to do it).
• Speech and language.
• Ability to carry out activities of daily living.

Dyspraxia/apraxia may be acquired (e.g. as a result of stroke or head injury), or associated with failure or delay of normal neurological development. Developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD) in children is the term used for dyspraxia due to a problem with normal neurological development. In popular English, when the word dyspraxia is used, it is usually used to mean this condition. DCD in children is classed as a motor learning disability.