August
26
My Grand-Daughter and Dyspraxia
I remember the day that my daughter told me that she was pregnant. I was to be a grandmother again but this was her first child. I went straight out and bought some baby items to start preparing fr the new arrival . I fussed over Kymm (my Daughter) all though her pregnancy.
She developed a craving for jelly babies so I stocked up on them. Then early one morning Kymm phoned me and said she had started bleeding so I jumped in the car and drove straight over there. We took her straight to the hospital and waited tentively whilst the doctors examined her. Luckily everything was fine and although she was early, much later that day, she gave birth to my beautiful Grand-daughter. I was lucky enough to be allowed in at the birth and it was amazing seeing Sarah jayne the moment she was born and the bond between us was incerdible. Over the next few months (or years) we spent such a lot of time together. I would literally kidnap her on the pretence that it was giving Kymm some much needed rest but in reality it was just that I couldn’t get enough of Sarah. We laughed and played and sang and danced. I saw her nearly every day and we both enjoyed it. Then we discovered that Sarah had dyspraxia. Dyspraxia is recognised to be an impairment of the organisation of movement. There is usually no known cause but current research sugests that it is an immaturity of neurone development in the brain rather than to brain damage.
In Sarah’s case it was discovered when she went for her first school medical. The doctor noticed that she was not walking evenly on both feet and after several tests Dypraxia was diagnosed. Sarah only had it in a milder form and after several weekly visits to a special class was quite able to develop her skills and manage her Dyspraxia very well. The headmaster at the school that Sarah attended was brilliant. He took notice of all the children there and when he found out about Sarah’s diagnosis he found out as much as he could about it and introduced varios ways to help her overcome it. He also made sure that all the children did the same exercises as Sarah so that she did not feel as if she was different. He instructed the teachers on any new developments that would help her and he gave her so much confidence. She can now do all the things that it was hard for her to learn and is a very intelligent girl. Sarah is 11 years old now and just getting ready to start the comprehensive school. Whilst she is still a little nervous of new experiences she handles them very well. She is brilliant at most computer games (especially car driving or ones where you have to fly planes) and I am so proud of her
