Sometimes also called Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, Dyspraxia is often referred to as a disorder of gesture. Features of dyspraxia consist primarily of abnormal motor behavior such as difficulties with balance and co-ordination, limited gestural motor tasks, clumsiness, and difficulty with fine motor tasks. Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia refers to an intelligible or atypical speech production. Children and adults with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder often show several signs of both verbal and motor dyspraxia. Dyspraxia in children is often compared to and contrasted with adult acquired apraxia.

A disorder in which there is impaired or immature development of movement skills, understanding of language and thought processes. Motor skills, such as catching, throwing and construction may be difficult and the child may be regarded as ‘clumsy’. He or she may find it difficult to understand sensory information and to relate it to actions and to plan and organise their thoughts. The cause is thought to be an immaturity of brain function rather than damage to the brain. Also known as ‘Clumsy child’ syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction or perceptuo-motor dysfunction.

A co-ordination disorder that may affect movement and hand-eye activities such as handwriting.

Difficulty in planning and carrying out complex movements such as drawing, writing, buttoning, and other tasks requiring fine motor skill. Verbal Dyspraxia specifically affects speech.

a difficulty with a previously learnt or acquired movement or skill

a disorder of Praxis, where somewhere between sensory information gathering and storing, ideation, motor planning, and execution, the messages are not getting through, are not producing the right result

Difficulty in planning, sequencing, and carrying out unfamiliar actions in a skillful manner. Poor motor planning is a result of dyspraxia.

A severe difficulty in performing or sequencing movements necessary for speech, drawing, writing, and other tasks requiring fine motor skill. Researchers believe dyspraxia results when neurological signals from the brain are not consistently or efficiently sent to or received by muscles in other parts of the body.

A problem with praxis, i.e., planning, initiating, sequencing and carrying out volitional movements.

Difficulty with fine and/or gross motor coordination, whether that be problems with the actual control of the muscles or with the brain’s ability to plan and organise a complex motor task such as tying shoelaces.

An inability to perform coordinated movements, although there is no apparent problem in the muscles or nerves. Can also be applied to speech and language functions.

A severe difficulty in performing drawing, writing, buttoning, and other tasks requiring fine motor skill, or in sequencing the necessary movements.

confusion in coordinating the voluntary muscle movements (see apraxia).

difficulty with voluntarily controlling the movements of the articulators for speaking (the person cannot plan the motor movements necessary for speech); however, non speech motor acts (e.g., eating, smiling) are not affected.

The brain's inability to plan muscle movements and carry them out.

An inability to coordinate movements even though there is no damage to the muscles needed for the movement.

A speech disorder of neurological origin where coordination of speech musculature is affected.

Difficulty in performing fine motor acts such as drawing, buttoning, etc. A person with dyspraxia has difficulty producing and sequencing the movements necessary to perform these kinds of tasks.

A disorder that affects the co-ordination of movement. This can affect co-ordination of the speech organs (oral dyspraxia) or other actions e.g. eating, dressing or writing.

developmental dyspraxia is an impairment of the ability to plan and carry out movements. It is characterised by inaccurate judgements of sequence, timing, and force resulting in difficulty with motor tasks such as drawing, writing, and buttoning. The term specific developmental disorder of motor function is also used.

A disturbance in the programming, control, and execution of volitional movements. Usually resulting from any condition affecting the cerebral hemispheres.

This is a severe difficulty in performing tasks requiring fine motor skills such as drawing or writing.

Inability to perform coordinated movements, especially speech, with no apparent problem in the muscles or nerves.

Difficulty planning movements and putting them into sequence.

Dyspraxia is the generic term used to cover a heterogeneous range of disorders affecting the initiation, organization and performance of actionhttp://www.rdg.ac.uk/studyskills/dyslexia/dyspraxia%20info.htm. It is an immaturity of the way the brain processes information, resulting in messages not being fully transmitted to the body and is a learning difficulty that can be present from birth (developmental dyspraxia) or as a result of brain damage suffered from a stroke or other trauma (acquired dyspraxia).