The Healthcall Discovery Centre was set up in Cardiff in September 1997 by Dr Amanda Kirby, a GP whose son Andrew had been diagnosed as having dyspraxia, sometimes described as the 'clumsy child syndrome'. She was frustrated with the attitudes of the professionals during her ten or 11 years of struggling to find a diagnosis for Andrew, and this led to her founding the centre.
It has a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of people with dyspraxia, and/or dyslexia and learning difficulties. The team comprises a host of medical and educational professionals , physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, a paediatrician, a neurologist, specialist teachers, an educational psychologist, a behavioural optometrist, medical support and parent counsellors.
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