CLIENT FACTORS
Client Factors - your child's values and beliefs. How their body functions and how this function influences what they can do on a daily basis
The systems of your child's body may also function differently to their peers:
Dyspraxia can have a profound affect on your child's temperament and personality. The challenges they are presented with can build up. With the stress and demands placed on a child in middle school their ability to function can be affected. The relentlessness of the challenges can cause a usually pleasant child to become frustrated and angry. They may display this outwardly showing signs of aggression towards others. The usually happy and jolly child can also become depressed and anxious as demands placed upon them increase.
As a result of this energy can be severely affected as their stores can become depleted as they work harder and harder to overcome deficits and overcome goals. As energy drops so the need of the body to rest increases, requiring more sleep. You may observe that your child is going to bed earlier or sleeping later and struggling to wake up in the morning.
Muscle function can also be affected. Your child may not lack muscle power (strength), or tone (amount of tension), or endurance (ability to continually contract repeatedly). However the messages sent via the central nervous system from the brain may not command the muscles to perform in the correct manner.
The systems of your child's body may also function differently to their peers:
- Hearing functions: does your child have difficulty locating or recognizing were sounds are coming from.
- Vestibular functions: this is the sensation that is linked to awareness of position, balance, and movement.
- Proprioceptive functions: is your child aware of their position in space. Can they correct or change their position effectively.
Dyspraxia can have a profound affect on your child's temperament and personality. The challenges they are presented with can build up. With the stress and demands placed on a child in middle school their ability to function can be affected. The relentlessness of the challenges can cause a usually pleasant child to become frustrated and angry. They may display this outwardly showing signs of aggression towards others. The usually happy and jolly child can also become depressed and anxious as demands placed upon them increase.
As a result of this energy can be severely affected as their stores can become depleted as they work harder and harder to overcome deficits and overcome goals. As energy drops so the need of the body to rest increases, requiring more sleep. You may observe that your child is going to bed earlier or sleeping later and struggling to wake up in the morning.
Muscle function can also be affected. Your child may not lack muscle power (strength), or tone (amount of tension), or endurance (ability to continually contract repeatedly). However the messages sent via the central nervous system from the brain may not command the muscles to perform in the correct manner.