Don't Leave These Kids to Pick Up Litter When They Need Help ; It's a Condition That Can Cause Suicidal Feelings in Those Forced to Live with Its Symptoms and Some Believe It Affects Several Million Children and Adults Across the Uk. Yet Dyspraxia Sufferers Often Find Themselves at the Back of the Queue When It Comes to Receiving the Additional Support Their Disability Demands, Even Though Experts Suggest One Child in Every Class has the Condition.

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SEVERAL weeks ago Ellen Woodward, who runs a disabilities support group, received a call from a father who told her he wanted to take his son in his arms and "walk into the sea".

The father and his son were both sufferers of what Mrs Woodward describes as an "invisible condition" whose symptoms are often left untreated.

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Don't Leave These Kids to Pick Up Litter When They Need Help ; It's a Condition That Can Cause Suicidal Feelings in Those Forced to Live with Its Symptoms and Some Believe It Affects Several Million Children and Adults Across the Uk. Yet Dyspraxia Sufferers Often Find Themselves at the Back of the Queue When It Comes to Receiving the Additional Support Their Disability Demands, Even Though Experts Suggest One Child in Every Class has the Condition.

The pair were dyspraxia sufferers - a condition that impairs co- ordination, balance, fine motor skills, language, thought and perception.

Previously dismissed by medics as little more than "clumsy child syndrome" Mrs Woodward says the treatment of, and services for, sufferers of dyspraxia are decades behind those available for other disabilities.

The symptoms, however, and the way they can blight the lives of sufferers - particularly children - demand intervention.

As well as motor...

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