Developmental coordination disorder

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Children with developmental coordination disorder have difficulties with motor coordination compared to other children the same age. Some common symptoms include:

• Delays in sitting up, crawling, and walking
• Problems with handwriting
• Problems with gross motor coordination (jumping, hopping, standing on one foot)
• Problems with fine motor coordination (tying shoelaces, tapping one finger to another)
• Clumsiness

Physical causes and other types of learning disabilities must be ruled out before the diagnosis can be confirmed.

Review Date: 11/15/2006
Reviewed By: Paul Ballas, D.O., Department of Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.