‘This is what real inclusion looks like’: eight-year-old learns to love skateboarding despite barriers
Children with severe disabilities rarely get a chance to have fun like other kids but with support and some creative thinking, Lloyd Pinn is out at the skate park and enjoying taking risks
Sporting sunnies, a riding helmet and an adaptive jumper and chinos, Lloyd Pinn stands with his legs apart on the skateboard, with two volunteers running alongside holding a custom-built all ability skate frame for support, as the wheels glide over the skate park surface, the wind on his face.
Lloyd is eight years old and living with a rare genetic condition that renders him non-mobile, non-verbal, with a severe intellectual disability and reliant on a feeding tube for sustenance. Around 30% of children with such a condition don’t live past the age of five. Continue reading...
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