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Developmental coordination disorder

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Symptoms:

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

  • Developmental delays in sitting up, crawling, and walking.
  • Deficits in handwriting
  • Problems in gross motor coordination (jumping, hopping, standing on one foot)
  • Problems in fine motor coordination (tying shoelaces, tapping one finger to another)
  • Clumsiness
Signs and tests:
Physical causes and other types of learning disabilities need to be ruled out before the diagnosis can be confirmed.
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