Dyspraxia? How to go about diagnosis?

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I’m 99% certain my 7 year old has dyspraxia.
She has been incredibly clumsy since she was a baby. Struggled with all the developmental stuff. She has a mild neurological condition which can affect balance so we put it down to that, but I really think it’s more than that.
Signs I’m seeing:

• she is incredibly clumsy and can fall over nothing. She falls over multiple times each day, and has done since being a baby. She has always been a frequent flyer at A&E
• she has very poor cause and consequence visualisation (if that’s a thing). Eg she will do the most daft things that will obviously end in disaster, like climb up something ridiculous only to fall down before you can get to her
• Handwriting is dreadful
• cant use a knife and fork for love nor money
• She is a hilarious, bright and absolutely lovely child. I can only sum it up as like living with Mr Blobby

What’s the best way to go about getting her assessed? I’ve waited it out until age 7 but if anything it’s getting worse. I’ve just watched her reach into the fridge for grapes, only to inexplicably next moment be upside down with grapes everywhere, poor little sausage.

Any advice much appreciated please!

You ll need a referral to a paedtrician and probably occupational therapy through your GP asap, some areas unfortunately stop diagnosing dyspraxia by age 11 on the NHS (some are much better) so best to get on any waiting lists now.
Now it's not impossible to get any dyspraxia diagnosis whilst they have another condition but it will depend what that condition is whether they would diagnose both if that makes sense.

Also although some areas might do a small block of occupational therapy, a lot are diagnosed and discharge so be prepared for that being a possibility.