CLUMSY CHILDREN - PRIMER ON DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER

Authors
FOX AM LENT B
Citation
Am. Fox et B. Lent, CLUMSY CHILDREN - PRIMER ON DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER, Canadian family physician, 42, 1996, pp. 1965-1971
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Canadian family physician → ACNP
ISSN journal
0008350X
Volume
42
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1965 - 1971
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-350X(1996)42:<1965:CC-POD>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The common assumption that children ''grow out of'' clumsiness is not supported by studies carried out over the lost 15 years. About 6% of c hildren lock the motor coordination to perform age appropriate tasks. Greater awareness of this developmental coordination disorder will imp rove the rate of identification, Family physicians should incorporate questions about motor skills into their assessments of preschool child ren.