dyspraxicadj.n.

1907 Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry 5 853 All movements with the left hand and arm were grossly dyspraxic.

1908 Brain 31 207 A lesion of the left arm centre produces greater or less paralysis of the right arm, and the left, deprived of the guidance of that centre, becomes more or less dyspraxic.

1965 Science 19 Feb. 915/3 Inhelder described new directions taken by the Geneva School in studies of the reasoning of mental retardates, of cases of senile dementia.., and of dyspraxic, dyslexic, and dysphasic children.

1978 Neurology 28 311 Infarction affecting the Broca area and its immediate environs, even deep into the brain, causes a mutism that is replaced by rapidly improving dyspraxic and effortful articulation.

1988 Brit. Jrnl. Disorders Communication 20 249 (title) Articulatory and voicing characteristics of adult dysarthric and verbal dyspraxic speakers: an instrumental study.

1994 Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 16/8 Dyspraxic children may appear awkward when running and have difficulty catching a ball and tying shoelaces.

1999 Nursery World 19 Aug. 22/2 She was seen by two educational psychologists, and one came up with the fact that Anna was dyspraxic. This made a lot of sense to us—that she was quite bright but there was some kind of mis-wiring.

1964 Cortex 1 195 When examined with a battery of intelligence tests, dyspraxics proved to be more impaired than non-dyspraxics, both in performance and verbal tasks.

1997 Guardian 3 June (Educ. section) 6/2 Education classes in young offenders institutions need to be alerted to the high proportion of dyspraxics they have.

2000 Daily Tel. 24 May 25/2 Dyspraxics have predictable and significant problems at home and at school, which often continue into adult life.