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> Hi Ruth

>

> Just wondering how your son's assessment went - wasn " t it last

thursday?

>

> Jenni

Jenni - I'm impressed!! Yes it was last Thursday, and it was most

illuminating. DS score was on the 7th centile for Dyspraxia (or

Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD)as they now call it) which

means that only 7% of children will be worse than he is! His knees

and ankles are slightly twisted (I never noticed before)and he needs

insoles to correct that. His ham-strings are VERY short which means

he can't push his toes upwards, he couldn't sit up on the floor with

his legs in front of him and put his hands on his knees - it hurt too

much. His shoulder frame is very weak, as is his pelvic frame, which

accounts for his lack of balance. I thought he did quite well in the

tests, so I was amazed at his poor score. They correctly assessed

that his self-esteem is very low, he doesn't have much confidence in

himself and that he has no at friends at school at the moment :(

Encouragingly, with treatment all this will improve, and we came home

feeling very releived that there really is a named problem (and it

isn't just him being stupid as kids at school put it, kindly). The

specialist is coming here to see us tomorrow to fit him for insoles

and to show us some exercises we can do together.

On Thursday, DS was so pleased with himself that he asked our Jack-of-

all-trades neighbour Phil if he would take the stabilisers off his

bike for him (gulp!) when we got home. He did, he adjusted the

height of the saddle and handlebars too, and helped DS by showing him

how to start off (and how to stop once he got going!). Encased in

his knee pads, elbow pads and helmet, DS got off to a wobbly start

and then he simply " took off " , down to the bottom of our close, up

the curb, round the end (whooping with delight) and back up again,

stopping neatly in front of us! It was incredible, we were hopping

about with excitement too! It's so good to have such supportive

neighbours - we E-Mailed DH with the news and when he phoned later he

just said, " Oh, yes? About time too. " I had to pretend to DS that

Daddy had been excited and I had to *ASK* DH to E-Mail DS back in a

suitable fashion (he did, thankfully!). Men!

The neighbouring children came out and thought DS had been practising

secretly - they asked how long his stabilisers had been off and I

said, " Oh, about 10 minutes! " so then they all came out and cycled

with him. They have even stopped calling him a " Baby " which he is

pleased about, and which has helped his confidence no end already.

Now we have the Educational Psychologist's assessment to look forward

to (Sunday November 11th), let's hope he can help DS too.

Thanks for asking Jenni - what a good memory you have!

Ruth

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> On Thursday, DS was so pleased with himself that he asked our Jack-

of-

> all-trades neighbour Phil if he would take the stabilisers off his

> bike for him (gulp!) when we got home. He did, he adjusted the

> height of the saddle and handlebars too, and helped DS by showing

him

> how to start off (and how to stop once he got going!). Encased in

> his knee pads, elbow pads and helmet, DS got off to a wobbly start

> and then he simply " took off " , down to the bottom of our close, up

> the curb, round the end (whooping with delight) and back up again,

> stopping neatly in front of us! >>>>>>>>

Ruth that is brilliant - my now 8 year old only learnt to ride

without stabilisers earlier this year - he had had terrible problems

at getting his balance. It did not help in our case that DS2 could

ride his without them.

It sounds like things are moving now with his tests and hopefully he

will get the support he needs.

Has the school situation improved?

Trisha

SAHM to 3 boys

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Awwww Ruth - wonderful news - you know how I mean that having been through

similar times with . I am reduced to tears reading about his bicycling

success - it will be so important to him to show the other children the ways

in which he can be soooooooooo clever ;)

Fingers crossed for the 11th now - but things are moving already - wonderful

news :)

Jenni x

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Ruth

This sounds like a really positive start and so good that you have some support

around you. Onwards and upwards from now on.

Caroline

Jersey

> Encouragingly, with treatment all this will improve, and we came home

> feeling very releived that there really is a named problem (and it

> isn't just him being stupid as kids at school put it, kindly). The

> specialist is coming here to see us tomorrow to fit him for insoles

> and to show us some exercises we can do together.

> Encased in

> his knee pads, elbow pads and helmet, DS got off to a wobbly start

> and then he simply " took off " , down to the bottom of our close, up

> the curb, round the end (whooping with delight) and back up again,

> stopping neatly in front of us! d I

> said, " Oh, about 10 minutes! " so then they all came out and cycled

> with him. They have even stopped calling him a " Baby " which he is

> pleased about, and which has helped his confidence no end already.

>

> Now we have the Educational Psychologist's assessment to look forward

> to (Sunday November 11th), let's hope he can help DS too.

>

> Thanks for asking Jenni - what a good memory you have!

>

> Ruth

>

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> Encased in

> his knee pads, elbow pads and helmet, DS got off to a wobbly start

> and then he simply " took off " , down to the bottom of our close, up

> the curb, round the end (whooping with delight) and back up again,

> stopping neatly in front of us! It was incredible, we were hopping

> about with excitement too!

Ruth, I am so impressed by this, especially the stopping bit!

MY oldest son is also dyspraxic and it was years after he learnt to

cycle that he mastered stopping. Before then he just steered into

something in order to stop. Now at 13 (and a half) it is his main

form of transport, he cycles on his paper round, to visit friends and

to go to school. In the heady days of The Girlfriend he even cycled

five miles every saturday to her village, and then home again.

DS1 is a real joy to me now, and although he will always have

dyspraxia we've all learnt to live with it and he has grown out of

many of the harder aspects of it.

Have you got the contact details for the Dyspraxia Foundation? I'm

sure they have a website it you do a search on Google. To be honest,

I found my local group to be a bit desperate, but nationally they

produce some good literature and those essentials (to us at any rate)

handhugger pencils, I also found they helped me come to terms with

the sudden, overpowering sense of loss that used to sweep over me.

If I can be of any help don't hesitate to contact me, even if it's

only for practical ideas - evening primrose oil, elastic laces and

electric toothbrushes, that kind of thing.

best wishes

Jan Ralston

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> If I can be of any help don't hesitate to contact me, even if it's

> only for practical ideas - evening primrose oil, elastic laces and

> electric toothbrushes, that kind of thing.

>

> best wishes

> Jan Ralston

OOOOhh!! Yes please! Any ideas will be very useful, what have you

found that helped and what with?

Ruth

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