The symptoms enumerated are just some of the pointers that indicate a child is suffering from dyspraxia. It means they need extra help at the Treatment Centre. Some of the symptoms may be noticed but it is rare for all these to be present in on person.

Children up to 3 years of age:

1.  From birth they are irritable.

2.  Show serious problems in feeding.

3.  They are slow in achieving the usual milestones in development.

4.  Even at the age of 8 months they may not be able to sit up by themselves without support.

5.  They skip the crawling phase and tend to shuffle on their bottom prior to walking.

6.  They skip tasks that call for manual skills.

Children aged 3 to 5 years old:

Their problems are as follows:-

1.  Extremely hyper motor activity typified by swinging of feet and continuous tapping while in a sitting position.

2.  Inability to sit still.

3.  Easily excitable and talk in unusually loud and shrill tones.

4.  They easily get unhappy and break into temper tantrums.

5.  They may continuously collide with objects and fall.

6.  While running their hands flap.

7.  They have great difficulty pedaling tricycles or similar kinds of vehicle.

8.  They do not have a sense of danger and think nothing of jumping from heights.

9.  They continue to eat in a messy manner, eat with their fingers and routinely spill their drinks.

1. They avoid jigsaws, building-blocks and other constructional toys.
2. Their finer motor skills like holding a pencil or cutting with scissors are extremely poor. Their drawings and sketches seem immature.
3. There is no imagination in their playing and they display no interest in dressing up or playing house in a corner.
4. Their creative playing is extremely limited.
5. They isolate themselves from their peers who usually reject them. Consequently they tend to gravitate towards the adults. 
6. Laterality or whether the child is left or right handed remains in doubt.
7. Language problems continue to persist.
8. They are extremely sensitive about stimulation of the sense like high noise levels, tactile defensive attitudes and craze for new clothes.
9. Their response to verbal directions given is very limited. They are slow in responding and have problems about understanding.
10. Their concentration is very low and often they fail to complete their tasks.

 If dyspraxia is not identified properly then the problems will continue and tell on the life of the child in school. This will cause frustration to increase together with a lowering of self-esteem.     

 Children aged 7 years old:

The following are their problems:-

1.  They have problems in adjusting to a disciplined school schedule.

2.  They cannot cope with lessons in physical education

3.  They cannot dress quickly and are not capable of tying shoe laces.

4.  Their handwriting is hardly legible.

5.  Their drawing and copying skills are immature.

6.  Their concentration is very low and they are poor listeners.

7.  They make literal use of language.

8.  They fail to remember simultaneous two or three commands.

9.  They are slow in completing class work assignments.

1. Their motor activity is extremely high
2. They clap and flap their hands when excited.
3. They tend to become easily upset and hysterical.
4. They have difficulty handling the knife and fork.
5. They are unable to bond with their peers.
6. They suffer from sleeping problems – stay awake and have nightmares.
7. They suffer from physical ailments like migraines, headaches and nausea.  

Children aged 8 to 9 years old:

The children of this age group get disenchanted with the education curriculum. Handwriting is a particular problem for them. When they reach the stage of secondary education their attendance record drops.

Pre-school and kindergarten warning signs:

If either three or more of these indications are noticed then it should be taken as a warning – more so if there is a family history of dyslexia or AD/HD. The child should undergo a dyslexia test when five years of age. Apart from this even during the pre-school years the guardians should engage them in phonemic awareness games and reading activities.

1.  Speech delay – the child does not say a single word by the time it is celebrating its first birthday. It has often been noticed that children fail to talk until they are two, two and a half, and three or even beyond that.

2.  Mixing up the sound in words containing many syllables. For instance instead of animal, sphagetti, helicopter, hamburger and magazine they will say aminal, bisghetti, hekalopter, hangaberg and mazageen respectively.

3.  They start stuttering from an early age.

4.  They suffer from surfeit of ear problems

5.  They fail to tie shoes.

6.  They are confused about directions – left or right, under or over, before or after and the words and concepts associated with it.

7.  It takes many years before it is determined whether they are right handed or left handed. While drawing, they quickly switch over from one hand to another. It will not be until they are seven or eight years that they will show a preference for one particular hand; but even then they may be using one hand for writing and another one while playing.

8.  They are unable to finish phonemic awareness assignments.

9.  After listening to stories containing rhyming words they cannot point out the rhyming words even when they are four and half years old.

1. They have trouble naming the letters or associating it with the alphabet’s sounds. They cannot write the alphabets in proper sequence.
2. They have difficulty pronouncing the Rs and Ls as also Ms and Ns. Their speech remains lisping and immature. Instead of red and green they may say wed or gween respectively in their second and third grades.