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• Help with adult Dispraxia -- Linda (Anxious but happy), Sat, Aug 01 2009, 12:27:24
  I've had a hard life up to now (on the inside) although now things are going well for me on the outside. I have only just discovered what Dispraxia is and that I have had all the symptoms of it all my life. I always knew there was something up and was always bullied and made to feel like I was just really stupid, which in my head I know I'm not but what I think and what comes across are two differen't things.
  I also suffer from Panic Attacks (which I believe are maybe related to the Dispraxia) and am on medication for these, having suffered a nervous breakdown 2 years ago (I'm 28).
  I am so happy to have now discovered that I'm not stupid, or senile, or lazy, or rude. But although I can now put a name on what is wrong with me, I am concerned that there doesn't seem to be any cure at the moment and wondered if there was anything anyone has either been prescribed or done that helps??? Any suggestions would be more than welcome. Many thanks and looking forward to your response xx
  

  
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• Disability with no name... -- Annie, Sat, Jun 20 2009, 16:22:58
  Has anyone experienced this disability? It is certainly disabling me, even if it doesn't have a name. I have absolutely no concentration or focus. I have had two successful and lucrative careers so I am not incapable. I stopped to look after a family member through a serious illness; then I looked after my mother for several years till she died. Now I have spent a lot of money on retraining but cannot do the studying - I can spend an hour watching clouds. I can daydream for England. It's not exhaustion, there has been plenty of time to recover. How can I restart my brain? Would Ritalin help?
  

  
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• unseen disability -- Michelle (frustrated), Sun, Jun 14 2009, 12:35:04
  i would like to add my thoughts about the social model of unseen disability and like to add that it could not be but in separate catagres as the subject is too complex. i have found recentely as a person with a unseen disabilty i get questioned alot by people who are not disabiled that they think its an excuse. the difficulties we have with certain issues in dealing with day to day life. people question with ignorance about the issues we face instead of ecepting the needs of a unseen disability and the problem is they can not see it, it can be so frustrating and make you feel so alone.
  
  is the disability not hard enough to deal with with out haveing to deal with the ingnorance of peoples argumentative quesions, i was told to stop telling some one how my disaility effected me because it made them feel bad.
  
  people have walked away from in in confrences about physcical disability because they seamed to think that because they could not see it it was not there. i am so unset when i left on how i was treated. and so angry how a organization could stand on a stage as put out a messgae that disability social model was about inclusion, and at the same time they, treated my like they was embarraced to have me there because the could not see by disability and took everything i said personally, when i had every right to say it in connection to my disability and analagy of how the medical model effects my ability to overcome barriers.
  
  sorry about the spelling i am dyslexic
  
  Michelle
  

  
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  • Re: unseen disability -- Andy, Mon, Jun 15 2009, 19:53:23

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• UNION DELEGATE -- Shirley A. Dudgeon, Sat, Feb 09 2002, 17:53:55
  THIS IS AN OFFICIAL UNION MEMO
  
  To: ALL DRAGON OWNERS
  
  As self appointed union rep for HWDU (Hard Working Dragons Union), I wish to inform you that a spot check will occur, at your premises, sometime in the next couple of weeks. We wish to ascertain that you are treating your dragon(s) in the correct manner, according to union rules and that any dragons - in your employ, are being renumerated and treated correctly. We also need to check that your dragon(s) are only performing duties outlined in their job specifications.
  
  Yours faithfully,
  
  Ima Nut...Union representative for Dragons
  

  
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  • Re: UNION DELEGATE -- Laura GALLUP Klure (Poly 1960), Wed, May 13 2009, 21:52:17

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• Treating dyspraxia in multilingual environment -- Mr. D. (Father of Dyspraxic boy), Tue, Dec 02 2008, 21:02:58
  My 3 1/2 yr old son has dyspraxia. He doesn't seem to be that clumsy but he is developmentally delayed (late in walking, drools) and definitely delayed in talking.... there may be a motor oral sensory issue too. We lived overseas in a French/Arabic culture with English spoken at home. He is now at home getting his first year of therapy in English. Either he continues there a second year (with continued family separation as I continue to work in the Maghreb) or we bringthe family back with a (bright) live in anglophone helper who will work with him 2 hours a day and we seek occupational therapy locally. Has anyone had experience / knowledge of how a dyspraxic child with speech difficulties adjusts to multilingual environment? Thanks.
  

  
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• can anyone help on diagnosis for semantic-pragmatic disorder? -- freddie suzanne lombardo (Urgent), Mon, Nov 24 2008, 14:11:07
  I am trying to find out how to get an assessment for my 12 year old son for semantic-pragmatic disorder. Can anyone advise?
  

  
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• dispraxia -- Sandra, Fri, Oct 10 2008, 14:40:48
  I see your original is quite old, so hope you have received
  help by now. My grandson is now nearly 16. He was diagnosed with integrated sensory disorder at 7. We worked with an occupational therapist for two years. Lots of exercises, a trampoline and spinning (tire swings are great. His coordination is still not great, but I enrolled him in a kenjitsu martial arts class several years ago and that has helped. Also, a treadmill and swimming are great for them. He is just this beginning to write quite well rather than print, though eating properly is still difficult. We have been very patient and I make sure I talk to each one of his teachers at the beginning of school. Hope you have gotten some answers which have helped. Patience, patience, patience. Also, he is on metadate for ADD. They seem to go hand in hand with ISD.
  

  
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• How to get a diagnosis of adult ADD -- Fiona, Sun, Apr 20 2008, 23:40:03
  Hello,
  I am a 43 year old mother who was misdiagnosed with mild bipolar when I attempted to get diagnosed for the ADD I know I have. Can anyone advise me on a route to get diagnosed properly, or whether it is possible to purchase ritalin any other way. Also, I intend to take it sporadically, like now - as I haven't yet filed last years tax return and am too overwhelmed with it so far, and would be interested to hear from other adults that manage to do this; ie take it on days when extra focus is needed only. Many thanks in anticipation of a response.
  

  
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• Diabetes Type 1 -- Sam (Your views), Thu, Oct 11 2007, 13:12:11
  My two son's have Diabetes Type 1 my first son was diagnosed in 1992 age 6 and the other in 2003 age 14. Their dad was 11 when he was diagnosed and other members of his family have this genetic condition. With the recent public awareness of more children and adults being dianosed with type 2 diabetes due to being over weight, poor diet and inactive life-style etc I feel this has caused more confusion and discrimination relating to this invisable disease. My daughter works in a school and claims some of the teaching staff feel that a child with type 1 diabetes should not be given a snack for mid-morning break because this extra food would not help her to grow out of her poor eating habits. When my daughter tried to explain that a balance of regular snacks is vital in avoiding a hypoglycaemia they said that diabetes is a result of the issues mentioned above i.e poor diet etc. I have to say that a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing!!
  

  
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• Face Blindness -- Jo, Sun, Jul 15 2007, 22:59:47
  You might like to include face blindness in the conditions you're mentioning on this site. Face blindness is an inability to recognise faces and affects about one in fifty of the general population - more in special needs areas as it has a correlation with autism.
  
  There are several links for more information - www.faceblind.org is the research site. www.prosopagnosia.com and www.prosopagnosic.com are both sites run by people who have the condition.
  

  
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  • Re: Face Blindness -- Ian Jordan (treatment of prosopanosia), Sat, Oct 13 2007, 22:09:24

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• research into mainstream education -- angela richardson, Wed, Apr 25 2007, 11:39:56
  hello there, i hope you can help me! i am the mother of a ten year old boy with ADHD and mild conduct disorder. i am researching the impact of uk maintream schooling,especially secondary school,for chidren with ADHD ASPERGERS or BEHAVOURIAL PROBLEMS. i am very intereted in hearing about your experiances if you are a parent or young person who has been through the system. did you feel supported or failed by the school,what problems if any did you encounter. thanks so much for your replies,angela
  

  
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  • Re: research into mainstream education -- Andy, Fri, Apr 27 2007, 14:45:11

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• penguins -- steam manager, Sun, Apr 22 2007, 3:16:33
  WHY ISNT THERE ANY PENGUINS! EVERY ONE KNOWS PENGUINS ARE THE BEST ANIMALS IN THE WORLD!!!!
  

  
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• how does dyslexia affect you -- Sara Fillingham, Fri, Apr 05 2002, 15:42:21
  I was asked the other day how my dislexia affects me. This has made me think how it affects other people, so I wandered how it affects you?
  
  Sara
  

  
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  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Andy, Fri, Apr 05 2002, 21:25:16
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Sara Fillingham, Fri, Apr 05 2002, 23:51:49
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Andy, Sat, Apr 06 2002, 0:32:20
        • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- sara, Sat, Apr 06 2002, 22:18:06
          • Cool -- Andy, Sun, Apr 07 2002, 13:37:31
            • Re: Cool -- sara, Wed, Apr 10 2002, 21:33:39
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Natalie, Wed, Oct 22 2003, 17:35:06
        • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Andy, Sat, Nov 01 2003, 14:28:28
          • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Ranger 39 (Depressed), Mon, Feb 16 2009, 22:27:04
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- diane (sad), Sun, Sep 09 2007, 21:51:40
  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you/Sara -- Dot, Mon, Apr 08 2002, 1:13:37
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you/Sara -- sara, Wed, Apr 10 2002, 21:42:06
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you/Sara -- Dot, Thu, Apr 11 2002, 20:08:58
      • Dyspraxia Web Links -- Andy, Thu, Apr 11 2002, 22:38:54
        • Re: Dyspraxia Web Links -- sara, Thu, Apr 11 2002, 23:52:54
          • Re: Dyspraxia Web Links -- nicola, Mon, Nov 17 2003, 19:07:40
  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Cynthia, Mon, Dec 09 2002, 16:08:28
  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Steve, Sat, Mar 26 2005, 1:07:13
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you (Oppps) -- Steve, Sat, Mar 26 2005, 1:14:12
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you (Oppps) -- sandymathis, Thu, Jun 22 2006, 1:41:14
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you (Oppps) -- mandy (confussed), Fri, Mar 16 2007, 22:13:38
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- caroline, Mon, Jun 26 2006, 20:11:59
      • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Matt, Mon, Dec 04 2006, 21:44:32
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- SHIRLEY, Mon, Jan 22 2007, 17:48:26
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- EDIBISOD, Fri, May 25 2007, 3:16:44
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Donna, Wed, Jun 13 2007, 13:50:23
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- beccy (happy), Sun, Mar 09 2008, 17:57:34
    • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- jonathan strutt (happy), Mon, Jul 14 2008, 22:42:53
  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Steph, Tue, Jan 22 2008, 19:08:08
  • Re: how does dyslexia affect you -- Katie (happy Katie), Sun, Feb 10 2008, 2:29:35

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• Dispraxia -- Janet, Mon, Jan 13 2003, 9:55:26
  My grandson has recently been diagnosed as ADHD with a possibility of Dispraxia alongside this also being explored. ADHD we've got a little knowledge of but Dispraxia is new to us. Any information about this would be really helpful at this time if anyone can help.
  
  My thanks in anticipation
  Janet
  

  
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  • Re: Dyspraxia -- Chris, Thu, Jan 16 2003, 9:39:38
  • Re: Dispraxia -- rynth, Fri, May 16 2003, 18:15:56
    • Re: Dispraxia -- Chris, Sat, May 17 2003, 16:27:12
    • Re: Dispraxia -- deb, Thu, Sep 09 2004, 18:37:49
      • Re: Dispraxia -- sheila, Sun, Oct 22 2006, 18:33:48
      • Re: Dispraxia -- Jodie (>:-)), Wed, May 09 2007, 12:55:38
        • Re: Dispraxia -- ele (ur mum), Sun, Aug 19 2007, 13:36:56
    • Re: Dispraxia -- kelly, Sun, Sep 10 2006, 7:57:31
      • Re: Dispraxia -- sarah (confused), Wed, Jan 28 2009, 16:11:50
  • Re: Dispraxia -- Fiona Shale, Sat, Feb 05 2005, 18:20:26
    • Re: Dispraxia -- suz, Mon, Sep 12 2005, 20:54:13
    • Re: Dispraxia -- Deborah Armstrong. (tearing my hair out!!), Wed, Sep 20 2006, 21:20:40
    • Re: Dispraxia -- sheila, Sun, Oct 22 2006, 18:36:13
      • Re: Dispraxia -- Tom, Wed, Nov 01 2006, 16:18:50
        • Re: Dispraxia -- lynne, Tue, Apr 08 2008, 2:34:50
      • Re: Dispraxia -- DK, Thu, Apr 17 2008, 4:32:51
    • Re: Dispraxia -- karen, Tue, Aug 14 2007, 3:33:43
      • Re: Dispraxia -- Hana (confusion), Tue, Dec 18 2007, 15:29:01
        • Re: Dispraxia -- Kate, Wed, Jul 01 2009, 10:11:04
    • Re: Dispraxia -- darren, Mon, Nov 12 2007, 16:28:16
    • Re: Dispraxia -- tess, Fri, Dec 07 2007, 21:39:04
    • Re: Dispraxia -- deborah carter (acceptance), Mon, Jan 21 2008, 10:37:43
    • Re: Dispraxia -- Lynne, Mon, Apr 07 2008, 9:20:19
    • Re: Dispraxia -- Lorraine M (Theres hope!), Tue, Jul 29 2008, 20:25:17
    • Re: Dispraxia -- Jo (Happy/Joanne), Thu, Aug 07 2008, 21:50:47
    • Re: Dispraxia -- pat D (joyful), Wed, Sep 03 2008, 11:03:09
      • Re: Dispraxia -- Joanna (happy), Fri, Oct 17 2008, 11:27:10
        • Re: Dispraxia -- charlene (excited), Mon, Jan 12 2009, 12:49:27
  • Re: Dispraxia -- sarah, Wed, Nov 09 2005, 15:45:04
    • Re: Dispraxia -- J WEBB, Thu, Feb 09 2006, 16:41:51
    • Re: Dispraxia -- J WEBB, Thu, Feb 09 2006, 16:42:15
  • Re: Dispraxia -- vhris (happy), Fri, Feb 23 2007, 17:00:29

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