Dyspraxia: an impairment of the structure and functions of the individual mind. A new study perspective and intervention

The term dyspraxia defines an inability to perform a pragmatically oriented action. The term doesn’t yet have a precise nosographic location. According to embodied cognition model, dyspraxia can be understood in a wider spectrum of pathological processes that significantly compromise the functions and development of an individual's mind. With the aim to identify early and to support pupils with possible motor difficulties, this study wants to propose a computational analysis model of the dyspraxic movement of children and to define which are the basic criteria for the construction of a technologically assisted diagnostic system for dyspraxia, thanks to the use of an ecological observation grid (GEO-DE). The observation tool was applied in a sample of 525 subjects, aged between 48 and 72 months in order to identify the groups of motor tasks predictive of dyspraxic phenomena. The analysis of the normalized importance of the independent variables showed that the AL group is the most important group for the forecast of praxic deficits, it was followed in descending order by the AP, GTI, EC. In future developments, the model described in this study intends to identify the precise connections between evolutions of the motor process and the forms of self-experience.