THE TALK ON AN UNKNOWN DISABILITY : DEVELOPMENTAL CO-ORDINATION DISORDER , A CONDITION I AM PASSIONATELY EVANGELISTIC ABOUT, DUE TO THE MANNER IN WHICH IT IS DISMISSED BY THE WORLD TO LONG TERM EMOTIONAL DETRIMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

11. Motor
planning
Execution
Sensory
Feedback
Ideation
Cognition
Affected in DCD!

19. (Psychosocial implications of poor motor coordination in children and adolescents; Skinner & Piek: Hum Mov
Sci, 2001 Mar;20(1-2):73-94)

20. Quality of life domains affected in children with developmental coordination disorder: a systematic review
Zwicker et al, Child Care Health Dev 2012;39:562–80

23. • Either anticipatory responses or over-shooting responses
• Executive function and top-down cognitive control have direct impact on
this
Sumner Dev Sci

25. DSM-5 Criteria revised (OT or PT)

28. Very frequent (more than 50%)
 Oppositional defiant or conduct disorder
Frequent (up to 50%)
 Developmental coordination disorder
 Specific learning disorders
 Anxiety disorder
Less frequent (up to 20%)
 Tic disorders  Depressive disorder
Infrequent
 Autism spectrum disorders
 Learning disability

29. Stages of ADHD. Adapted from
Kewley G
Stages of ADHD, Adapted from Kewley G

30. • Self esteem in ADHD low
• Medications
• Significantly higher self-esteem
• Feeling ↑ intelligent and ↑ popular than un-
medicated children
• Outcome of medications in children with low self
esteem poor
Do Stimulants Improve Self-Esteem in Children with ADHD and Peer Problems? Frankel et al: Journal of
Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. January 2009, 9(3): 185-194

36. Are referrals to
occupational therapy
for
developmental
coordination disorder
appropriate?
Dunford et al,Arch Dis
Child 2004;89: 143–7

37. Why every office needs a tennis ball: a new approach to assessing the clumsy child?
Missiuana et al, CMAJ August 29, 2006

38. Why every office needs a tennis ball: a new approach to assessing the clumsy child?
Missiuana et al, CMAJ August 29, 2006 vol. 175

39. The South Wind will rest and the North Wind will blow
Crashes of mountains all full with snow.
Nothing will crash, Nothing will float
Nothing’s exciting, Nothing like boat.
I heard a sound – first a crash
Then was a clatter, last was a smash.
Seven hundred years or so,
Seven thousand years ago,
Windows, curtains, chimney, roof
It’s Christmas time – I’m telling the truth.
I have made a little rhyme
Once upon a winter time
No, candle, no light, no dirt, no bin
No sparrows , no birds , no robins they sing.
All of the pigeons have gone to their nest
The children are sleeping – they’re doing their best.
Now every time I read a book
The faster I ran, the candle I shook
I marked myself with biro or pen
It’s Christmas time now and then
Sing and sing, song and song
Learning you were right, learning you were wrong
All is right no not crime
Once upon a winter time
Handwriting

42. Peabody Developmental
Motor Scales (PDMS):
Preschool children
Movement Assessment
Battery for Children
(MABC 2):
Children > 4 years of age
Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of
Motor Proficiency

54. Handwriting improved
Quality and quantity of work improved!