Tuesday 10 October 2017

Dyspraxia in the Media

this blog is about the coverage of dyspraxia in the media specifically traditional media such as newspaper, television and radio perhaps even some internet coverage aswell.
any media coverage of Dyspraxia or any other neuro/hidden disabilities in general seems to be quite rare although recently there has been an increase of media coverage of some hidden disabilities mostly the more well known ones such as autism and in the past i have seen some programmes on dyslexia and AD(H)D
this is not to say that dyspraxia does not fetaure in these forms of media media at all in fact recently (the last 2 or so years) there is some coverage as there has been a couple of newspaper artcles which i will link to at the bottom of this post and some features through radio and online comedy which you can see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-39351356
unlike some other hidden conditions dyspraxia has as far as im aware never had a trelvision programme speccifically for increasing the understanding and awareness however dyspraxia has appeared or been a part of a couple of television programmes one of which is (young) childrens show tree fu tom that tries to encourage activity and improve motor skills whilst watching television you can read more about it in these two links below
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/treefutom/dyspraxia-foundation.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/children-with-dyspraxia
and something that perhaps more would have seen was lofty a character played by lee mead in casualty and now holby city (BBC shows) was that in an episode of casualty there is a mention that lofty may have dyspraxia however after that one scene in one episode it was never mentioned afterwards.
links to as many articles about or featuring dyspraxia as i can from the last few years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/29/dyspraxia-serious-recognition

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/10/what-is-dyspraxia-its-more-than-just-clumsiness-6496918

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/dyspraxia-is-more-than-just-clumsy-child-syndrome-it-can-cause-emotional-distress-and-anxiety-a7416081.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/this-is-how-a-dyspraxia-diagnosis-changed-my-life-a3359906.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/i-get-knocked-back-but-i-get-up-again-my-journey-with-dyspraxia-a7091426.html


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