ABSTRACT
Kaylee first became aware she was somehow different from others when she was four. Her mother had enrolled her in ballet classes, but after about a dozen lessons she realised she was clumsy compared with the other girls in her group. She also found it very hard to remember sequences of steps, and her slowness at learning was commented on negatively by others. Her sense of shame and embarrassment resulted in her begging her mother to stop taking her to ballet lessons, which she did. At nursery school Kaylee’s teachers became concerned by her difficulties with forming shapes and letters. Her problems with mastering handwriting continued into primary school and she was the last in her class to progress from using a pencil to a pen. Kaylee described her schoolwork as always looking scruffy, no matter how hard she tried to be neat.
