Discovery Channel - dyspraxia

By Collette Drifte, Nursery World, 4 May 2000

The Healthcall Discovery Centre was set up in Cardiff in September 1997 by Dr Amanda Kirby, a GP whose son Andrew had been diagnosed as having dyspraxia, sometimes described as the 'clumsy child syndrome'. She was frustrated with the attitudes of the professionals during her ten or 11 years of struggling to find a diagnosis for Andrew, and this led to her founding the centre.

The Healthcall Discovery Centre was set up in Cardiff in September 1997 by Dr Amanda Kirby, a GP whose son Andrew had been diagnosed as having dyspraxia, sometimes described as the 'clumsy child syndrome'. She...

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