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[Source: Irish Times]



Aside from dealing with ‘clumsiness’ and pain, seven-year-old Luc struggles with the simplest of tasks – running, writing, dressing, eating. He suffers from the little-known condition dyspraxia, writes SHEILA WAYMAN

LUC CARPENTER often cries all the way home from school, complaining that he is hungry or that he has had a bad day or that somebody has been mean to him.

As a seven-year-old boy with the “hidden disorder” of dyspraxia, the school day is a huge ordeal physically, academically and socially. He is exhausted afterwards.

The moment his mother, Michelle, gets him back to their home, in Clane, Co Kildare, she needs to give him food, as he will probably have eaten little if anything since breakfast. Then he has a break before they face the challenge of homework.

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