Developmental coordination disorder
Developmental coordination disorder is a chronic disability that affects coordination. It is also known as developmental motor coordination disorder, developmental dyspraxia or dyspraxia. Around 2-6% of people have dyspraxia. Four times as many males than females have it.[1] It is sometimes called 'clumsy child syndrome',[2] but adults have it too. Most people with dyspraxia have other disabilities such as ADHD or autism and Hypermobility.
There is no single cause of dyspraxia. It may not appear until later in childhood or sometimes even in adolescence. It cannot be cured: people who have it will live with it for life, however people are able to overcome it and find alternative ways to accomplish tasks which may usually be difficult without support.
Signs
- Difficulty tying shoelaces
- Difficulty running, crouching and climbing stairs
- Poor coordination
- Untidiness
- Incorrect way of running
- Self-care difficulties
- Messy eating
- Not doing well in Physical Education classes
- Inability to ride a bike, jump rope and spin a hoop
- Not alternating feet when going on stairs
Associated disorders
People who have developmental coordination disorder may also have one or more of these conditions:
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (inattention, hyperactivity, impulsive behaviour).[3][4]
- Autism spectrum disorder[4][5][6][7]
- Dyscalculia (difficulty with mathematics),[8]
- Dysgraphia (an inability to write neatly and/or draw),[9]
- Dyslexia (difficulty with reading and spelling),[10]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist. 
- Hypotonia (low muscle tone)[11]
- Sensory processing disorder[12][13]
- Specific language impairment (SLI)[14]
- Visual perception deficits[15]
Famous people with dyspraxia
Daniel Radcliffe has dyspraxia.[16]
Developmental Coordination Disorder Media
Daniel Radcliffe, actor, has dyspraxia.
References
- ↑ David Grant 2010. That's the way I think: dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD explained. Oxford; New York: Routledge, p. 141.
- ↑ Penny Deiner 2013. Inclusive early childhood education: development, resources, and practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, p. 395.
- ↑ Fliers EA, Franke B, Buitelaar JK. Motor problems in children with ADHD receive too little attention in clinical practice (in nl). Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 155 (50) (2011). p. A3559.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gillberg C, Kadesjö B. Why bother about clumsiness? The implications of having developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Neural Plast. 10 (1–2) (2003). p. 59–68. doi:10.1155/NP.2003.59.
- ↑ Dziuk M.A.. Dyspraxia in autism: association with motor, social, and communicative deficits. Dev Med Child Neurol 49 (10) (2007). p. 734–9. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00734.x.
- ↑ Jeste SS. The neurology of autism spectrum disorders. Curr. Opin. Neurol. 24 (2) (2011). p. 132–9. doi:10.1097/WCO.0b013e3283446450.
- ↑ Miyahara, M.. Meta review of systematic and meta analytic reviews on movement differences, effect of movement based interventions, and the underlying neural mechanisms in autism spectrum disorder. Front Integr Neurosci 7 (2013). p. 16. doi:10.3389/fnint.2013.00016.
- ↑ Pieters S.. Mathematical problems in children with developmental coordination disorder. Res Dev Disabil 33 (4) (2012). p. 1128–35. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2012.02.007.
- ↑ Van Waelvelde H.. SOS: a screening instrument to identify children with handwriting impairments. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr 32 (3) (2012). p. 306–19. doi:10.3109/01942638.2012.678971.
- ↑ Susan J. Pickering. Working memory and neurodevelopmental disorders (2012)Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-135-42134-2.
- ↑ Barnhart R.C. et al 2003. Developmental coordination disorder. Phys Therapy 83 (8): 722–31. PMID 12882613
- ↑ Elbasan B, Kay 305 Han H, Duzgun I. Sensory integration and activities of daily living in children with developmental coordination disorder. Ital J Pediatr 38 (1) (2012). p. 14. doi:10.1186/1824-7288-38-14.
- ↑ Biggs, Victoria. Caged in chaos : a dyspraxic guide to breaking free (2005). London ; Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84310-347-9. OCLC 57316751.
- ↑ Alloway, TP. Working memory and learning in children with developmental coordination disorder and specific language impairment. Journal of Learning Disabilities 41 (3) (2008). p. 251–62. doi:10.1177/0022219408315815.
- ↑ Schoemaker MM.. Perceptual skills of children with developmental coordination disorder. Hum Mov Sci 20 (1–2) (2001). p. 111–33. doi:10.1016/s0167-9457(01)00031-8. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ↑ Chris Irvine, 'Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe has dyspraxia', The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group Limited (04 September 2013)
Other websites
- Dyspraxia Foundation website Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Dyspraxia Yahoo Group Archived 2019-10-16 at the Wayback Machine