Dyspraxia is a neuromotor planning disorder. In the States it is often called "coordination disorder". It can be manifested in many ways from severe whole body lack of coordination, visual motor issues, to oral reading issues and graphomotor (writing, aka, dysgraphia) disorders.
Actually, the 3 broken arms might be because of dyspraxia.
It is common among highly gifted kids due as severe asynchronous development.
I have it, I have found out this summer. It was a "aha" moment. As an adult who never had intervention for it I can say life can be manageable but sometimes not very enjoyable because of it. I have difficulty descending stairs, being in crowds (stumble at light bumps), writing, excercising, spilling when I'm eating remains a problem but DH doesn't go ballistic about me, knocking over water, dropping things...etc. But in general I have a productive life. So, there is hope for Mite.
There are lots of sites about it. Here's a beginning...
http://www.ncld.org/index.php?ption=content&task=view&id=466
