Developmental coordination disorder is a common condition that can be treated if detected early.
Clumsiness… Our feature that often plagues us.
Actually, clumsiness is a condition that starts in childhood and can be treated if detected early. It even has a medical diagnosis. Developmental coordination disorder.
Does your child...
Does she have difficulty in handicraft class?
Is she always the last to be chosen in team games?
Is she having trouble with her handwriting and can't finish her homework?
Yes to these questions If you give the answer, you need to take action for the developmental coordination disorder that affects preschool and school age children…
Developmental coordination disorder is defined as lack of motor skills and lack of coordination that interferes with daily activities. Hyperactivity and language development problems may occur frequently in these children.
As developmental coordination disorder prevents daily activities, these children begin to stay away from activities that require physical participation and are isolated by their friends. In time, a lack of self-confidence and dislike for their own production may emerge.
Tagging children with motor problems as "clumsiness" may cause us to miss out on valuable intervention time between the ages of 4-8. There are no clumsy children. There is a developmental coordination disorder.
DIAGNOSIS CRITERIA OF DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER
Adequateness in daily activities that require motor coordination, chronological age of the person and measured intelligence level is significantly below what would be expected. This may be manifested by marked delays in reaching motor milestones (e.g. walking, crawling, sitting), dropping things, “clumsiness”, poor proficiency in playing sports, or poor handwriting.
This disorder significantly impairs school success or activities of daily living.
Motor problems are often more than accompanying it, even if mental retardation is present.
Even if there is mental retardation.
p>Reflects nonspecific impairment in brain processing for which the problem cannot be clearly demonstrated in brain anatomy, including problems with sequencing, timing, and judgment. There are also problems in cognitive, sensory and motor processes in motor incompetence; visual, movement, and deep perception are involved.
– Motor coordination significantly below chronological age and measured intelligence
– The impairment significantly impairs academic achievement or adjustment functions.
– The disorder should not be due to a general medical condition (eg, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy.)
– If there is mental retardation, the motor deficit is more than the cognitive deficit.
– Fine and gross motor skills are significantly below cognitive function.
– There will be no neurological cause to explain the motor impairment and will be since early development.
– Delays in reaching early motor milestones ( e.g. delayed grasping, grasping, and walking)
– Insistence on toe or wide base walking
– Absence of abnormal tone, weakness, dysmetria, or focal neurologic deficits
– Inability to achieve age-appropriate motor milestones (eg catching the ball, jumping on one foot, drawing age-appropriate figures)
– Important in visual-motor integrity, sequencing, deep sense, motor performance, and imitation of gestures degree of delay.
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