Aged 29 during a visit to a physiotherapist I was asked to stand on one leg and failed hopelessly to balance. I was then asked to march on the spot and duly obliged, only to discover that my right arm and right leg were in synch, and not opposites. Baffled and amused, I returned home and did not really give it much further thought until 6 years later. As a glasses wearer myself, when my son was 6 years old, I took him for a routine eye test. The optometrist immediately identified his inability to track an object and to my surprise then asked him to stand up and march on the spot. Low and behold he marched in the same incorrect right-right, left-left synch as me! The optometrist was careful and determined not to give this curious co-ordination a label, but determined to research as much about it as possible, I concluded that we were dealing with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), also referred to as Dyspraxia. www.nhs.uk/conditions/Dyspraxia-(childhood)/Pages/Introduction.aspx Categories All
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