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.
