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On the Web
- The Dyspraxia Support Group of New Zealand, Inc. - Offers information about help available, characteristics of dyspraxia and tips on teaching a child with dyspraxia.
- Yahoo Groups: Dyspraxia - E-mail list providing support, tips, and suggestions for adults who have dyspraxia or similar coordination difficulties.
- Dyspraxia Association of Ireland - A FAQ, information and advice about Dyspraxia.
- Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia - Information and advice about Dyspraxia.
- Straight Talk About Dyspraxia - Offers a description of how to make a simple chart of the speech progress of a child with developmental verbal dyspraxia (apraxia of speech), links to more information, and other suggestions that have helped this parent in New Zealand.
- Dyspraxia: Can We Talk? - A reference center for Speech-Language Pathologists, parents and friends. Provides description, recommendations, tips, treatment information, sample IEP, and humorous look at parenting.
- Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia: General Information for Parents - Shelley Velleman, Ph.D., a speech-language pathologist with a research interest in apraxia, provides a page about developmental verbal dyspraxia (childhood apraxia of speech).
- Developmental Dyspraxia - Madeleine Portwood - Information about Developmental Dyspraxia (DCD) for children with perceptual coordination disorders. Includes identification and treatment programs, plus information on dyslexia, ADHD and Autism.
- The Dyspraxia Foundation - Supports individuals and families affected by developmental dyspraxia through books, suggestions, a teen newsletter, and an adult support group.
- Dyspraxic Teens - Forum offering support to teenagers with Dyspraxia. Information about Dyspraxia, resources, advice, and message board.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dyspraxia - Dyspraxia entails the partial loss of the ability to coordinate and perform certain purposeful movements and gestures in the absence of motor or sensory impairments.
- Sunflower therapy - Sunflower therapy (also known as the Sunflower Method) is a holistic healing approach intended to help children with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. It involves a number of techniques, including applied kinesiology, physical manipulation, massage, homeopathy, herbal remedies and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).
- Cerebellar Developmental Delay - Cerebellar Developmental Delay (CDD)How does it work?, Dore webpage describing CDD is a term coined by scientists at DDAT / Dore (Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Attention Treatment initiated by Wynford Dore) centres (and thus should not be confused with a generally accepted medical condition).
- Ness Foundation - ... Foundation, established by Dr (now Professor) Iain Glen, a consultant psychiatrist, is a research charity based near Inverness, Scotland. It was founded in the 1980s and previously known as The Highland Psychiatric Research Foundation, carrying out research into diagnosing conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, dyspraxia, dyslexia, depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Dore (dyslexia treatment) - The DORE programme, previously known as DDAT (Dyslexia Dyspraxia Attention Treatment) is a drug-free course of treatment for dyslexia and other learning difficulties which has aroused controversy among the medical establishment in Britain. It consists of a series of exercises designed to develop the functions of the cerebellum.