Developmental Coordination Disorder and Functional Skills

Researchers in Taiwan determined that children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and suspected DCD perform significantly lower on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and School Function Assessment when compared to typically developing peers. This indicated that the children with DCD and suspected DCD exhibit inadequate functional skills at home and school.

Limitations of the study is that the sample was on Taiwanese children and all of the standardized testing was done with the Chinese version.

The study does give us information as to the degree of how developmental coordination disorder effects children in their functional activities.

Reference: TIEN-NI WANG, MEI-HUI TSENG, BRENDA N WILSON, FU-CHANG HU
Functional performance of children with developmental coordination disorder at home and at school Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2009 1469-8749 0012-1622
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03271.x US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03271.x