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:

• Clumsiness
• Delays in sitting up, crawling, and walking
• Problems with sucking and swallowing during first year of life
• Problems with gross motor coordination (for example, jumping, hopping, or standing on one foot)
• Problems with fine motor coordination (for example, writing, using scissors, tying shoelaces, or tapping one finger to another)

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

Review Date: 11/02/2010
Reviewed By: Jennifer K. Mannheim, ARNP, Medical Staff, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org).

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