Understand Dyspraxia with ADHD; Make Learning and Life Easier for Your Child

Experts who help students with dyspraxia and ADHD not just to cope, but to thrive academically and socially.

Discover Strengths: Identify your child’s unique thinking strategies and abilities and leverage them.
Reduce Frustration: Proven strategies to diminish difficulties in coordination, handwriting, and organization and to manage their need to move.
Build Confidence: Empowering students by embracing their distinctive thinking style and fostering self-esteem.

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“It’s been great to learn about myself and make real progress in my life. I’m feeling positive and optimistic about my life now.”

— Roisin
Dyspraxia

How It Works:

Personalized Assessment: Gain clarity on your child’s strengths, challenges, and learning style.
Customized Learning Path: Learn a program of exercises to address your child’s unique neurodevelopmental irregularities.
One-to-One Educational Consultation: Learn effective strategies specific for your child.
Continuous Support: Classes for parents and caregivers and continuous contact between sessions.

Meet the Team

Margo Fourman

Having personally overcome severe dyslexia and dyspraxia, Margo passionately helps students worldwide to leverage their unique abilities.

Founder, Co-Director

B.Sc., M.Ed., Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy

Dror Schneider

Dror has extensive experience teaching natural vision improvement and combining neurodevelopmental and sensory insights to support educational needs. She travels frequently from her home in Georgia, USA.

Co-owner and Co-director of Neuro Specialist Tutors

Abir Baidoun

Abir integrates multiple modalities, focusing on Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia, anxiety, and pain relief. With over 1500 clinical hours, she deeply respects the body’s intelligence in self-correction.

Certified HANDLE Practitioner & Level 1 Instructor, Certified RMTi Consultant and Level 1 & 2 Instructor, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Medical Welness Qigong Practitioner

Tariesa Gildenhuys

Tariesa owns a remedial school in Pretoria, South Africa, specializing in Autism, Asperger’s, ADHD, and anxiety. She applies a compassionate and energetic teaching approach informed by neurodevelopmental understanding.

Special Needs Educator, B.Ed., Social Auxiliary Work Specialist

Chiara Meloni

Chiara is a former high school teacher, now a homeschooling mother of three following the Waldorf pedagogy. Interested in natural medicine and addresses clients holistically.

Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine (3 yrs – NL), HANDLE Screener

People just don’t understand what it’s really like to have a child with dyspraxia and the impulsive-hyperactive type of ADHD.

Does your child have trouble sitting still?

That is always a challenge in formal settings for children with ADHD, but for children who also have dyspraxia it is even worse. There are accidents and things get broken. Not only do they seem to never sit still and focus, but wherever they go they seem to bring chaos with them.

They constantly get into trouble. These children can be exasperating but it does seem terribly unfair.

Teachers complain and often exclude them from classes by sending them outside or to the office or just anywhere, as long as it’s elsewhere.

It is hard for them to focus on work or to just get through the day. You have probably tried everything you can think of to help them: Giving them breaks, offering prizes and threatening with lost privileges, moving them from one school to another, organising activities to help them function. Perhaps some of these helped, but did they help them thrive?

It’s not your fault

And it’s really not their fault either. Your child is just as frustrated as you are. Nobody seems to understand them. They are fighting to focus, to relax, to get good grades, to fit in, and to “be normal”, but it just doesn’t work like that.

Here’s the reality…

Well meaning helpers may have been trying to help them to fit in. Perhaps they helped them find ways to move often without disturbing others. They may have tried a range of organisational techniques. They may have struggled to maintain the classroom learning environment while allowing your child what they need.

The risk of spillages and breakages and the overenthusiastic interruptions often trigger distraught teachers into unsympathetic controlling behaviour.

Stress

This causes your child stress and just makes things worse. It increases the need to move, and decreases control and organisation of the body.

The need for calm and quiet in the classroom often requires your child to learn and behave in ways that work for other children but just don’t work for them. And that’s where refusal and defiance may start happening. Often their defiance turns out to be self-protection. We need to understand why, what is the underlying cause?

What causes these behaviours?

ADHD is a genetic trait that has evolved over millions of years and appears in every country around the world. So it must have an evolutionary advantage, or it would have died out.

Their teacher may say, “Behavior is always a choice”. We think their behaviors are opportunities for us to learn what may be the underlying neurodevelopmental challenges they are dealing with, so that those can be addressed.

We often see irregularities in muscle tone, in the sense of body-in-space, in being able to move just what needs to move and resting all the rest, in eye teaming and tracking… there’s more. The children are different from one another, so it takes some exploration.

We choose to see their learning differences as differences rather than as disabilities. We find it important to show your child how to both manage their needs (such as movement) and leverage the thinking processes that are natural to them.

Secrets to succeeding

For those with dyspraxia and ADHD, there are specific secrets to succeeding in school… and in life.

To help them navigate their way to a better and easier future, they would benefit from addressing the neurodevelopmental irregularities and taking advantage of their non-standard, often out-of-the-box, intuitive thinking. When your child understands what their evolutionary advantage is and how to use it to their benefit, when they learn to explain their thinking in a school setting that expects that, then their insights may be appreciated.

That’s when they can thrive.

Each child needs a personally designed individual program. Our neurodevelopmental specialists can unpick what is getting in the way of focus and concentration and our specialist tutors can help find ways to organise their learning and their output which fits with their unique abilities.

If what you’ve been working with hasn’t given you the results you wanted, it’s time to try something different.

We can help you understand how your child really learns.

We aren’t here to teach curriculum content such as math, chemistry, or any specific subject. We’re here to teach you and your child how they learn and how to take advantage of their unique ways of thinking. Our goal is to help them become independent lifelong learners.

Once they learn what is getting in the way of their focus and find ways to channel their energy they often excel. As students and their families start to see improvements, the tension at home and at school often dissolves to be replaced by hope – and understanding.

We suggest you use four steps to achieve success with your child who has dyspraxia and ADHD:

Investigate with us what’s really going on.
Develop your child’s true learning potential through an individualized neurodevelopmental home program.
Work with a specialist tutor who actually understands what dyspraxia and ADHD are, to develop strategies for effective learning
Apply what you’ve learned to help your child become an effective, independent lifelong learner.

If you would like to talk with one of our experts to discuss what would be the best approach to support your child with dyspraxia and ADHD, book a free consultation today.