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DS16 is autistic and dypraxic. He needs replacement shoes. His school has no uniform so these will be the only shoes he wears for most of the next 12 months (he also has some wellies and crocs but they are only worn in absolute extremes of weather!). They need to be properly waterproof with decent grips. They do not need to be "school shoes"!
They must have a lacing system that does not have any hooks for the laces - I'll be replacing the laces with elastic ones with a toggle, and this doesn't work well with hooks because unless he keeps them done up tight and tucks the excess laces in properly (which he won't, because sensory reasons plus dyspraxia) the laces fall off the hooks and then the hooks can snag on each other or on the loose ends of the laces and trip him up. So they need to have eyelets all the way up.
They also need to be ankle boots rather than low profile shoes because he needs the ankle support.
We've previously always gone for Keens, but he doesn't fit the kids range now and we can't find any adults ones that don't have the dreaded hooks 😬 Last year I got a pair of old stock Keen Circadias which were perfect but nowhere has the same ones now, the newer version has hooks.
Budget is around £100, possibly a bit more if we find the right thing. Any suggestions?