An impairment in the development of motor coordination which may affect the acquisition of motor skills such as walking, crawling, buttoning, etc. People with this condition are usually clumsy and may have difficulty with building models, playing ball, and printing or writing. Sometimes the motor difficulties apply only to the mouth and interfere with speech production while other motor and language skills may remain intact. This is known as Verbal Dyspraxia, Oral Dyspraxia, or Verbal Apraxia. A motor disorder characterized by motor and verbal tics.
Tics are uncontrolled, repetitive movements or speech.
Tics can be simple twitches, more complex movements, or even complete phrases. Tics are usually worse when the person is under stress, even if the stress is from trying to control the tics. An article about the lesser known developmental disorder. All information on this site copyright of the original authors.