Verbal self-guidance as a treatment approach for children with developmental coordination disorder: A systematic replication study

Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) experience many occ upational performance difficulties in all areas of daily living. For the mo st part, research has failed to identity an effective treatment approach fo r these children. Verbal self-guidance (VSG), a Mew approach, first explore d by Wilcox and Polatajko (1993), appears to have good potential in helping children with DCD become competent in the occupations of their choice. The purpose of this study was to carry out a systematic replication of the fir st VSG study to determine if a different therapist could achieve similar re sults. Repealing the VSG procedure with four different children, using a si ngle case study design, a different therapist was able to replicate the ear lier findings. This provides further evidence of the potential of VSG as an effective approach for enabling children with DCD to surmount their motor challenges.