Does dyspraxia exist?

Dyspraxia ? more commonly called developmental coordination disorder (DCD) ? is indeed a very real condition! In fact, it's thought to affect around six percent of children across the United States. Your suspicions about its existence are not unfounded, though. Researchers and health care providers struggle to define and diagnose DCD. Essentially, DCD is a developmental delay that involves problems planning, coordinating, and executing physical movement. In fact, DCD was once called "clumsy child syndrome," as it was the diagnosis given to children whose clumsiness and lack of coordinated movements couldn't be explained by any other physical or developmental condition, like cerebral palsy [2] or autism [3]. But the symptoms and severity can be wildly different for everyone, making it tricky to nail down a definite diagnosis quickly.