^ Please could someone help me: I am trying to set up a newsgroup
for
^ dyspraxia and | have no idea how to go about doing it.
What is dyspraxia?
Creating a newsgroup is a very difficult process. It is difficult
because the people managing it will automatically deny your wishes
and the instructions for creating one are intentionally confusing,
incomplete, and misleading. You would do much better to ask someone
who has done it to do it for you.
But here are two sources for the information you need:
<http://angelfire.com/tx/calame/createnewsgroups.html>
<http://lonestar.texas.net/~eacalame/how-to-create-newsgroups.htm>
Frank
I am not sure that dyspraxia is still considered a legitimate term. As
I recall, it is an obsolete Brit term for dyslexia. Any one who knows
better, please correct me.
My dyspraxia means that I can figure out how to do things but my hands
cannot do them, unless I concentrate very hard. If I just try to write then
I scrawl but if I focus on every curve, stroke and nuance then I can do it.
it would take hours to write this and be physically exhausting. (I can type
like the devil though!)
My hands shake slightly all the time but I think of that as a by-product.
Dys-praxia (Praxis > Greek = Action)
Hammer
Leon Watkins (but you can call me psyanide)
Keep me informed....
Mary
>BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">Subject: Re: New group for Dyspraxia
>From: "psyanide" <psya...@mindless.com>
>Date: 30/04/98 21:56 GMT
>Message-id: <3548f...@news.myratech.net>
>
Walkhurst wrote in message:
>Stuff Snipped<
In these two years, we've seen our cheerful,
>happy go lucky little girl become quite temperamental, lacking in
motivation
>and pretty unhappy at school. Sadly, talking to parents of other dyspraxic
>children, this seems to be fairly usual.
Indeed it does. I watched my son go through exactly the same process before
he was properly diagnosed. - I am Dyspraxic too and I was diagnosed at the
same time as him about two/three months ago (I am not very good with time) I
am 42 this year.
If you give your child love praise and support, she will manage. Kids
develop incredible coping mechanisms. As long as you support them and
believe in them.
Perhaps a dyspraxia newsgroup is a good idea I am in two minds (no pun
intended) about it. Are there enough of us with the time and energy to keep
it going?
This group is full of energy but when my first look at it included just a
handful of posts, one of them I think from Frank, bemoaning the fact that
nobody posted here anymore! It does take comitment, not only to ask
questions and decompress to the group, it takes commitment to support
others.
Peace
Mark
Walkhurst wrote:
>
> I'd be very interested in a Dyspraxia group. My 9 year old daughter has
> recently been identifed as being dyspraxic. In the range of dyspraxia, I'd say
> she's at the mild/moderate end, but it still causes her, and us, a fair bit of
> grief. Needless to say, we've had loads of problems with her school teacher -
> at least two years of endless criticism for being 'disorganised, lazy,
> inattentive, clumsy' etc.etc. In these two years, we've seen our cheerful,
> happy go lucky little girl become quite temperamental, lacking in motivation
> and pretty unhappy at school. Sadly, talking to parents of other dyspraxic
> children, this seems to be fairly usual.