Dyspraxia on Woman's Hour - when was it??

[aloha]

Have been told that there was an excellent interview with super-clever dyspraxic teenager on Woman's Hour, but can't find it on listen again - did anyone hear this?

I haven't heard it but this looks like your link
here .

Will try and listen myself later.

Amanda Kirby is the doctor who we saw at the Dyscovery Centre.

Oh, thanks Saker, I will listen in.
How are you and how is your ds?

Ah, just looked properly and no, it isn't that one. Apparently it was last week and it was with a girl who is going to Cambridge to study linguistics. I will have to call the office on Monday I think.

It was on Friday morning. I heard it while I was driving to Sainsbury's, then sat in the car park and listened some more. Was getting odd looks and had to get on with the shopping, though, so didn't hear the end. She sounded lovely, and the book she's written is funny and interesting.

3Princesses - I think I'm going mad! I've tried the listen again thing on the bbc woman's hour website but it's just a long phone in about student problems and the serial. Can you help me - was it at the beginning? Was she a phone in interview? Help! Really desperate to listen to this.

Well Friday's program is here .

We are okay thanks Aloha. Ds2 is getting on quite well and I feel his language and understanding are improving all the time although his understanding still seems to lag behind.

I feel a bit sad today though as tomorrow it the first day of term and all Ds2's contemporaries will be starting school. He would have been going for his first day at the same school as his brother but as you know we have delayed his entry as he only turned 4 in August.

In fact, we almost certainly have a place for him at the Infant Assessment Unit attached to a primary school 12 miles from where we live, starting in Feb. I hope that will help him as they get 3 sessions speech therapy a week and occupational therapy instead of PE which quite frankly would be a waste of time for DS2 at the minute. That would be up to the end of year 2 and then we would have to see where we are.

We have a meeting of all the professionals involved with him next week to decide what we should be doing for him so hopefully that will be useful. I can't see any diagnosis coming out of it though.

I hope your ds is okay. He sounds such a character, I should love to meet him. If you are ever in East Anglia you must come and see us.
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Aloha, crossed posts. yes I listened to the beginning and it did sound like a phone in so I sort of gave up for the time being because I didn't have time to listen for the full hour. i thought maybe she was one of the people phoning in.

Where are you in East Anglia? We go to Norfolk for our holidays and will be there at half term with all three.
I think the assessment unit is such a good idea. I think August children can really struggle even without special needs - my stepdaughter, who is bright and fine and great actually went back a year because her birthday is in late August and she wasn't doing herself justice.
So pleased ds is a September baby. His social skills are really immature and he will be much better off with a year for us to work on them I think. Also dressing/undressing etc. Though his physical skills have come on lately and he's enjoying the playground, climbing and even using the slide which he used to hate. He's a very happy chap though and so in love with his baby sister. He wondered if there were any other babies we could borrow from the library!

Oh bless him! I have no intention of having a third, but I have noticed that Ds2 is quite interested in little babies. Ds2 also loves his big brother.

Ds2 is really happy at the moment also. About a year ago he seemed really miserable at nursery and not being understood and seemed to withdraw a bit even from my mum who he absolutely adores normally, but now he is fine. I think it really helped me giving up work and sending him to preschool.

His gross motor skills are also improving and amazingly he climbed out of the swimming pool today all by himself. His fine motor skills don't seem to be improving at the same rate unfortunately as was evidenced by the sight of him covered in bolognese sauce at Cafe Uno at lunchtime .

We are near Newmarket only about 4 miles off the A14 /A11, so seriously, if you do pass by you must call in! Having said Dh and myself are supposed to be going to Norfolk ourselves for the first weekend of half term. My parents are having the boys and it's the first weekend we have ever had away since Ds1 was born 6 years ago. We would be around the second weekend though.

Trying hard to think what time I went to Sainsbury's, and actually...

...was this item not on You and Yours?? The more I think about it the more I'm sure that we weren't up and about in time for it to have been Woman's Hour...

Mystery solved!

It was on Friday's You and Yours. The girl is called Vicky Biggs and her book is called Caged in Chaos. If only I was as clever as she is I could do a link...

But at least I can go to bed happy now!

Oh THANK YOU 3Princesses - it was driving me bonkers, it really was. I'm very grateful to you.
Saker, whenever I pick up ds from nursery they apologise for the state of him!
I'll let you know when we are next up East.
(climbing out of the swimming pool is excellent btw)