Ah, well it's all go in our house!
We got my daughter's hearing aids sorted last week, and this week we're onto DS!
It was suggested to me around 18 months ago that DS might have dyspraxia. I believe I posted on here about it a while ago listing some of our observations/concerns and I was advised to take him to the GP. I eventually did (so thanks for the support I had on that matter), he was referred to the hospital and on Friday I got the letter to say that they have decided to assess him. Hurrah. At least I assume that's what it means, we've been invited to the hospital for an appointment next week.
I suspect that if it is felt he has it, it will only be a mild case. I just wondered what to expect when we go along to the appointment.
There were also a couple of other things that I wondered if it would be worth mentioning and thought here would be as good a place as any. 
In addition to the co-ordination/organsiation issues, he also does some other 'stuff' - some minor and just incredibly frustrating! Some more serious that's affecting him at school. I just don't know whether it would be worth mentioning, just in case, or whether it's just typical kid stuff and it will look like I'm clutching at straws/trying to suggest something. Or whether it's necessary to give them a complete picture of who he is.
He find communication really difficult. So sometimes we can talk around in circles for ages before getting to the answer. Because if we don't phrase a question exactly we'll just get anything. So a simple yes or no question will never be answered simply or reliably - we have to ask so many questions that it's more of a case of getting the correct answer by a process of elimination.
He quite often gets confused and befuddled by having to answer questions or hold conversations. Although he's really into computer animation and can talk for ages about what he's doing, what he's planning to do. He seems to be able to organise himself ok then. He's also posted on forums regarding his animation package giving advice to others (often adults) who haven't been able to do something. He's pretty much taught himself that and he knows it inside out.
But if I don't ask all the questions I'll just end up on a wild goose chase trying to find something that doesn't exist or solve a problem that isn't a problem. And there are occasions when afterwards he'll deny all knowledge of it. It's only when you can replay the entire conversation back to him that he will concede that that was what he said and why it might have given the other person in the conversation the impression that it did. Argh!
And if it's clear from what you're saying that you've got the wrong end of the stick, he doesn't correct you, he'll carry on answering the questions even if they are absolutely meaningless (e.g. "when has your maths homework got to be in?" "Er, Tuesday". "Are you sure it's due in on Tuesday?" "I think so" "Have you got any maths homework?" "no". That sort of thing.)
I can't work out if it's an issue with organising his thoughts and he finds that difficult so rather than struggle with it he'll just say anything and it's only if you ask really specific direct questions that you'll get to the 'truth' or whether he's just lying. 
Some of these ridiculous conversations take place because he doesn't seem able to recognise when people haven't understood so I have wondered if he's just trying to answer a question purely because it's been asked, whether or not it makes sense. So long as it's semantically accurate, it doesn't seem to matter if it's true/relevant or not.
When he gets an inevitably frustrated 'talking to' afterwards he starts off very indignant and can't see what has happened. He'll eventually claim that he does realise that the other person didn't understand. But not without having it pointed out to him and without being alerted to the signposts in the conversation that should have told him. We had two of these conversations on Friday night and a disastrous shopping trip for school supplies yesterday based on a further nonsensical conversation. So it seems that if the conversation is deconstructed and explained to him he can see it, but doesn't recognise it during the conversation.
The only comment the school have ever passed is that he "has a clearly defined sense of right and wrong". I know this means he's a bit inflexible. He is a bit. He's always been incredibly well behaved at school and at home because he follows rules to the letter. In fact the only time this is really an issue is when he's playing (yep, still plays!) with his younger sister who wants to be a bit free with the rules and mix it up a bit and he won't have it. I'm talking quite simple stuff like pretending the children in the Playmobile family are adults so that they can get married too.
He was brilliant at primary school. He wasn't ID as G&T or anything, but he was certainly one of the more capable students and they were making all the right noises by the end of KS2 regarding his future success. But this has completely fallen away at secondary school and he's wavering around the average now. I think this is linked, in part, to his (in)ability to organise himself and his thoughts and communicate his ideas in writing.
Oh and one more thing. He doesn't really have any interests in seeing his 'friends' outside school. I mean he says he has friends and he walks to school with a group of 4 boys. He claims that he and these other boys spend lunchtime in the library together, but he so rarely sees anyone outside school. He saw no one over the summer other than 2 cinema trips. He doesn't see the point in just 'hanging' with them. They don't communicate outside school - he doesn't really FB. He has an account but says he doesn't really see the point so I know he's not talking to them on there. The school always describe him as happy and popular and he seems to get on ok with people. No problems as such, but from what I can see it's all very superficial. Like he can do it enough to get by, but not sustain it. He's always been like that. I could probably count on one hand the number of times he's had a friend back to play/or been invited to another persons. But he's not bothered by it.
I think I always just assumed that the school would pick up on anything that didn't sit quite right with them, but I've started to wonder if he's slipped under their radar because he doesn't cause them any bother. He goes every day, he follows all the school rules so looks neat and tidy, doesn't play up in lessons, gets great behaviour reports. He doesn't get really get homework (different issue, the school don't believe in it!) and so isn't responsible for taking his books in. His pencil tin stays in his bag so the only thing he has to remember in the week is his PE kit. The GP did seem to think this might be a factor.
Sorry this is so long!
So I would just like to know if anyone thinks these other things are worth mentioning or if I'm reading too much into quite ordinary things.
Or whether it sounds familiar to anyone else!
Anyway, TIA x