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Developmental coordination disorder

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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