KIDD (KISS-Induced Dysgnosia and Dyspraxia)

Features Most Children Have – But Occurring in Combination, They’re Significant

• Balancing, bicycling, and stilt walking are learned with much difficulty.
• Due to a lack of security, these children have a fear of heights and unfamiliar situations.
• Due to relatively poor coordination, they’re awkward, “klutzy”. The child is scolded by adults and teased by playmates.
• Since they have problems spatially orientating themselves, they also have problems hearing – background noise is more difficult to filter out. Therefore, these children often have difficulty concentrating.
• There is just a small leap from spatial orientation to the realm of numbers: mathematical comprehension.
• Repeatedly failing at small, everyday tasks is frustrating and upsetting even for adults; for children, that much more. They react with impatience and aggression.
• The perceptual disturbances mentioned above inhibit the learning of emotional codes – the ability to perceive and correctly interpret the social signals of others. As a result, emotional intelligence is reduced and social integration suffers. The children can’t handle their emotions well, they’re constantly blundering in social situations, they’re unpopular.
• Too slow, too frightened, too clumsy: such children withdraw into themselves and avoid situations in which they might somehow fail. As a result, they become recluses, loners.