Early indicators that a child may have Dyspraxia:
1. Irritable and difficult to comfort from day one
2. Difficulties with feeding, allergic to milk, colicky, needs to be on a restricted diet
3. Has difficulty sleeping, establishing and sticking to a routine, needs constant adult
reassurance
4. Early motor development is delayed, needs help sitting up longer than most kids, needs
extra help in learning to roll over from side to side, most likely skips crawling and goes
right to walking.
5. Constant high level of motor movement of arms and legs including clapping, hand or
foot tapping, wringing of hands, swinging of feet, not being able to sit still longer than 5
minutes, flaps hands when running or walking, constantly falling or bumping into things
6. Has behaviors that are repetitive in nature
7. Sensitive to noise levels that are higher than normal such as loud shrill voices, out of
the ordinary noises
8. Has continuous problems with their feeding development-spill things, prefer fingers to
eating utensils
9. Toilet training is delayed longer than most typically developing children
10. Avoids toys such as puzzles and Legos (toys that require you to put things together in
a specific way.
11. Slower to respond to verbal instructions and needs them broken down into small steps
to process, slower in comprehension
12. Prefers Adult interaction over peer interaction
13. Does not liked to be touched or wear new clothing-clothes may need to be washed
several times to become comfortable for them to wear
14. They have no fear from jumping off of things that are too high and have no sense of
danger
15. Fine motor skills are slow to develop such as holding a pencil appropriately, using
scissors, and coloring recognizable objects
16. They do not like playing dress up or engaging in appropriate imaginative play
