The development of static balance is a basic characteristic of normal motor development. Most developmental motor tests include a measure of static balance. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often fail this item. This study reviews the balance problems of children with DCD. The general conclusion is drawn that under normal conditions static balance control is not a problem...

Abnormal features of development in children such as hypotony of core stability (CS) as well as hypotony and hypertony of the lower extremities muscles described by us in the previous article [1] can be considered as early symptoms of developmental coordination disorders (DCD) in the light of current knowledge. DCD is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a marked impairment in the...

PURPOSE To explore the differences in learning a dynamic balance task between children with and without probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (p-DCD) from different cultural backgrounds. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-eight Dutch children with DCD (p-DCD-NL), a similar group of 17 South African children (p-DCD-SA) and 21 Dutch typically developing children (TD-NL) participated in the study. MET...

Abstract Introduction It is estimated that 6% of school-age children have Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), characterized by motor difficulties restrict participation at home, in the community and school. The Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance Approach (CO-OP) effective improving functional performance these children, but there little clinical data on variations re...

Research using clinical populations to explore the relationship between hemispheric speech lateralization and handedness has focused on individuals with speech and language disorders, such as dyslexia or specific language impairment (SLI). Such work reveals atypical patterns of cerebral lateralization and handedness in these groups compared to controls. There are few studies that examine this r...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by poor motor proficiency that interferes with an individual's activities of daily living. These problems in motor coordination are prevalent despite children's intelligence levels. Common symptoms include marked delays in achieving motor milestones and clumsiness, typically associated with poor balance, c...

Processing action-language affects the planning and execution of motor acts, which suggests that the motor system might be involved in action-language understanding. However, this claim is hotly debated. For the first time, we compared the processing of action-verbs in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), a disease that specifically affects the motor system, with children wi...

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 c...