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dyspraxia, n. Med.
Brit. |dɪsˈpraksɪə|, U.S. |dɪsˈpræksɪə|
[‹ German Dyspraxie (H. Liepmann 1905, in Münchener Med. Wochenschr. 28 Nov. 2322 /2) > prefix + -praxie -praxia comb. form. Compare ancient Greek δυσπραξία bad luck, lack of success.]
Originally: impairment of the ability to perform certain voluntary, esp. purposive or skilled, movements, in a person with normal muscular strength and sensation; apraxia, esp. of a relatively limited or partial type; (also) a form or type of this. Freq. with distinguishing word indicating the part of the body or type of movements involved. Later also (more fully developmental dyspraxia): a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by clumsiness of movement, incoordination, and difficulty or delay in acquiring motor skills (often including speech).
1907Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry 5 853 Maas relates an interesting case which..belongs to the small category in which left-sided dyspraxia was unaccompanied by paralysis or dyspraxia of the right hand. 1908Brain 31 164 The condition which has come to be known as apraxia or dyspraxia, or the inability of an individual who has neither motor nor sensory paralysis, nor ataxia, to perform certain familiar purposive movements, is by no means a new discovery. 1913Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 36 161 By dyspraxia is inferred that certain purposive movements succeed while others fail. 1942Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 47 1008 Since then we have seen at least half a dozen cases in which we were able..to study the dyspraxias involved. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 59 Manual dexterity may be so poor as to raise the suspicion of a ‘congenital’ type of motor dyspraxia. 1978Q. Jrnl. Med. 47 303 The features include cortical blindness, visual disorientation, disturbances of reading and constructional dyspraxia. 1980Developmental Med. & Child Neurol. 22 84 Developmental dyspraxia of speech is amenable to specific types of intervention. 1994Independent on Sunday 10 July (Rev. Suppl.) 16/1 He was seven when a paediatric neurologist finally diagnosed him as suffering from dyspraxia. This affects gross motor movements such as walking and bicycling, and fine movements including writing and, in Richard's case, speech. 2000TVQuick 13–19 May 29/2 Dyspraxia is also known as Clumsy Child Syndrome, Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, Motor Learning Difficulty and Percepto-Motor Dysfunction. |