Giving all their attention
Last year, he found it difficult to concentrate at school, was failing at literacy, and began to hurt other children unintentionally as he ran past them in the playground. In the doctor’s surgery, he loved climbing on the furniture and was unable concentrate for long enough to complete a jigsaw or build a tower of blocks.
“He was full of craic and fun and people enjoyed him, but we didn’t want him to be the class clown. We had him assessed privately because of harmless comments from people like, ‘He’s mad, where did you get him from?’ It gets to you when you hear it all the time,” says Greg’s mother, Lorna Pearson.
