When I would try to teach him something like how to hold his fingers in the right position for something (like holding a pencil, etc.), he would look at my fingers and do something totally different with his, even though it was obvious he was concentrating really hard on trying to make his fingers look like mine. There was just no connection between what his brain was telling his body to do and what his body was actually doing.
Nautigal, there is a test called "finger tapping" that is used in diagnosing fine motor dyspraxia - the tester taps different combinations of fingers together and asks the person being tested to copy what they see. Our ds can't do this - he tries his best, but has to look at his hand, hold it in different positions while he studies it and then inevitably taps a completely different set of fingers together.
flower, we have dyslexic relatives in my dh's family... as well as relatives I suspect are undiagnosed dyslexic and dyspraxic.
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