Useful Links to other Web Sites

• Learning Skills 4 Kids
  Learning Skills 4 Kids provide specialised learning programmes that significantly boost your child’s visual and auditory memory, fine motor, handwriting and learning skills. We specialise in developing the foundation skills for learning

• Dyspraxia USA NFP
  A new website (2007) based in the USA with information on Dyspraxia. The goal is to generate awareness about neuro-diversity and help those living with Dyspraxia.

• Teenagers with Dyspraxia
  A website dedicated to Dyspraxic Teenagers. This site is developed by teenagers with dyspraxia for other teens with dyspaxia.

• For a young persons perspective, take a look at Matthew's Hide-out.
  Matthew is a young man who has Dyspraxia and has built a web site where he shares his experiences.

• New Zealand Literacy Portal
  The purpose of the New Zealand Literacy Portal is to:
  · Build a collective knowledge base of literacy information, and to provide a single, convenient point of access to that collective knowledge base,
  · Provide information that assists people involved in literacy to network and collaborate
  · Provide information or web-services which assists literacy research institutions to network and exchange information.

• Parent to Parent New Zealand
  Parent to Parent is a support and information network for parents of children with special needs ranging from the very common through to the most rare of conditions.

• Pro-Ed
  Founded in 1993 and based in Mairangi Bay on Auckland's North Shore, Pro-Ed offer a team approach to children with dyspraxia. They have a team offering Speech - Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychological Services and specialised tutors in the areas of Reading, Spelling, Written language and Maths.

• Occupational Therapy for Kids
  A site describing the services of Fiona Lilley, a NZ Occupational Therapist with a special interest in helping children with:

  • Handwriting difficulties

  • Visual perception difficulties

  • Sensory integration

  • Vision therapy

• For information about Educational Services in NZ, visit EduSearch by clicking here.

• The Dyscovery Centre (UK)
  The Dyscovery centre helps individuals with living and learning difficulties such as Development Co-ordination Disorder, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome. They are based in Whitchurch, Cardiff (the capital of Wales).

• Dr Caroline Bowen PhD (a keynote speaker at the 2001 conference in Christchurch NZ)
  is a SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST and has information for families, Speech - Language Pathologists,
  professionals in related disciplines, and students of human communication disorders and sciences available at www.slpsite.com.
  • A recommended link for HIGH SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY STUDENTS and their parents and teachers is
      http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/adolescents.htm

• E-mail groups exist for  adult people with dyspraxia and parents of children with dyspraxia.

  To register, simply send an e-mail to the groups by clicking on the links below
  ParentsOfDyspraxia-subscribe@yahoogroups.com   or
  AdultDyspraxia-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

• For those who read French, Motamot is a French language site with information on Dyspraxia and other conditions.

• Also in French, the site Dyspraxique Mais Fantastique! is the French Association web site.