I'm familiar with dyspraxia, enabled a group to acquire funding to promote
the need for public awareness.
Geoff ? started a group in Warrington he's now an lay expert re- Dyspraxia.
It is real, others don't understand.
Please, I hope you bc me to discuss and share information.
I have been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome? I very doubt it.
I agree I am strange, my language development/redevelopment (with age) is
way behind my current years! however, I disagree with their thoughts of
semantic pragmatic disorder!
Keep at it, follow your intuition, clumsy child syndrome needs care and
attention to detail, particularly the character/spirit of the child.
Lynn.






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From: "alderoak" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: If you are good...(Lynne)


shall we two blend our bitterness and be sweeter thereby?

as posted to Arthur - this whole experience has been rather testing. My son
has severe dyspraxia. So severe that when we had a new community
paediatrician he was shocked at how disabled he was and dismayed at how the
school had treated him (ie. excluded).

The Disability Rights Commission have been great - since the Disability
Discrimination Act was extended to schools last year, they are allowed to
help.

As they pointed out, if his mum wasn't a psychiatrist and his dad a
politician, our son would still be out of school and unlikely ever to go
back.

Hence my relative absence from the list - too busy battling. And, like you,
teaching my unique son that there is a way and that he can make it.

Terri )O(


-----Original Message-----
From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Lynn Owen
Sent: 17 January 2003 18:54
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Subject: Re: If you are good...


And if he is perfect you will pluck you hair with your thumb and forefinger?
Sorry if that sound sarcastic, it brought back memories of when my son was
home for almost a year.
He has autism, the LEA refused him a place in a specialist school that had
everything I felt he needed.
They placed him in a school for children with severe learning disabilities?
That means a million things! anyhow He stayed home I educated him in my own
unique way, they tested him again and he got a place in the school I chose
originally???
The result is an happy ending for the kid who is now seventeen with a life
he loves.
Lynn
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: sub: If you are good...


with apologies for absence, a little poem on the subject of discipline from
a reluctant part-time home-schooler.


If you are good.
        For Thomas



If you are good I will give you

a garden of early spring pokèmon
a vineyard of ripe bionicles
a Sosmix of tie-dyed stories
a twilight of sheepskins
and a warm wind of dreams.


If you are naughty you will get

an avalanche of expectations
an earache of spinach
a dustbin-day of directions
a trigonometry of toe-clippings
and a nightmare of melted cheese.



Terri )O(