Developmental Coordination Disorder: current issues

Developmental coordination disorder: Current issues.

The concept of a specific disorder of motor function has been recognized for at least a century, with a gradual increase in awareness of this condition among health professionals and researchers developing over the past 30 years or so. First recognized in DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association 1987) as clumsy child syndrome, a number of labels have been applied to the disorder, including d...

Child: Care, Health and Development Special Issue: ‘Developmental Coordination Disorder: Current Issues’. EDITORIAL

developmental coordination disorder in children

objective in this article, a motor skill disorder called developmental coordination disorder (dcd), that is usually first diagnosed during childhood, is explained and discussed. in the year 1987, dcd was formally recognized as a distinct disorder in children by the american psychiatric association  (apa). dcd is a generalized term for the children who have some degrees of impairment in the deve...

developmental coordination disorder: diagnosis, evaluations, and treatments

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Developmental Coordination Disorder/ Dyspraxia Cortical functioning in children with developmental coordination disorder: a motor overflow study

Sensory processing and higher integrative functions impairments are highly prevalent in children with ASD. Context should be considered in analyzing the sensory profile and higher integrative functions. The main objective of this study is to compare sensory processing, social participation and praxis in a group of 79 children (65 males and 14 females) from 5 to 8 years of age (M = 6.0...