When you google dyspraxia or Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD), you are faced with article after article about extremely clumsy children unable to ride a bike. Articles about both adults and children with mild dyspraxia are few and far between.
My son was assessed to be mildly dyspraxic when he was 6 years old. He could ride a bike and tie his shoe laces, put had poor handwriting, was hyper-sensitive to light, sound and touch and could not throw nor catch a ball. As he went through the pre-school to school years, as parents we felt that something was a little different and couldn't quite put our fingers on it. These traits and more, were ones which I recognised in myself and as my son has grown into a confident and accomplished young man, I have increasingly identified the same issues which I had growing up. If only I knew then what I know now.
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