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...

1 Kinderzentrum Maulbronn and University of Heidelberg, Germany. 2 Department of Biomedical Kinesiology, Katholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Avans University for Professionals, Breda, the Netherlands. 3 Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 4 Discipline of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne...

Aquatic therapy is an intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) that has not been investigated formally. This was a pilot randomized controlled trial to investigate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an aquatic therapy program to improve motor skills of children with DCD. Thirteen children (mean age 7 years 1 month; 10 males) with DCD were randomly a...

The aim of this paper is to discuss if criteria used for diagnosing children for clinical purposes should be the same as for the selection of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder for research. Next, we give an overview of the criteria mentioned in the development of the European guideline for diagnosing Developmental Coordination Disorder and the implementation of this guideline in...

INTRODUCTION Given the well-acknowledged visual-motor difficulties of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), it is surprising to find few research studies systematically exploring their visual-motor task performance. OBJECTIVE To describe the impact of task difficulty and motor ability on visual-motor task performance in children with and without DCD. METHODS Twenty-four c...

In this study we assess for the first time the driving skills of young adults with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). We use a virtual city and a driving simulator to examine steering control, speed regulation and the responses to pedestrians on the road. Participants were adolescents and young adults who had been diagnosed with the disorder as children. For most participants the sympto...