Comparison of motor skills in Children with developmental coordination disorder and normal peers

Introduction: First years of life is named sensorymotor. In this year cognition is raised from environment and development is from motor. (1) Some of children have difficulties in motor skills; they struggle to perform accurately the motor activities of daily life. (2) Therefore they have problems in selfesteem, learning, academicals functioning and daily living. In the 1930s, the term clumsy child syndrome began to be used in the literature to denote a condition of awkward motor behaviors that could not be correlated with any specific neurological disorder or damage. This term continues to be used, but often with social rejection. (1, 2). Now they are children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). (3) Motor problems in DCD are not a unique and standard model. Motor models are depended ages, temperament and environmental conditions. (4) Tsiotre in 2006 studied in DCD prevalence in Canadian & Greek children. In Greek children, it was higher. (19to8%) Children with Attention – Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Learning disorder (LD) have deficiency in motor skills, too. DCD is with some of co morbidities like ADHD and LD. (5) InterIranian Rehabilitation Journal , Vol. 6, No.7 & 8,2008