Ruling out progressive disease was one reason I wanted testing done, especially after my son was diagnosed with scoliosis last year. I was worried that there might be other things that we needed to watch for. Luckily the scoliosis was caught in time that he can wear a brace and if it continues to work, he won't have to have surgery for that, but the brace is painful and he has to wear it for several more years.
He learned to read on his own very early and the hypotonia didn't affect his speech at all, but he told me he wondered if the dyspraxia was somehow related to dyslexia because he would sometimes write letters and numbers backwards and he still occasionally does this. Writing a two like a five can cause math errors, so he did a lot of mental math. The more he had to write, the more likely it was he would write something backwards so he got very good at mental math. He writes only as much as he absolutely has to and still get the correct answer.
