According to the American Psychiatric Association, the developmental co-ordination disorder can be defined as a neuro-developmental condition (DCD) that affects a child’s ability to perform everyday tasks in self-care and academic areas.
Other terms for this disorder/Synonyms for DCD includes motor delays, clumsiness, clumsiness -motor delay, developmental delay, gross motor and fine motor developmental delay, developmental apraxia, disorder of attention and motor perception, developmental dyspraxia, perceptuo-motor dysfunction, motor learning difficulty and sensorimotor dysfunction (Gibbs, Appleton and Appleton, 2007).
The original Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (Bruiniks, 1978) was revised in 2005 to the Bruininks-Oserestsky
Other terms for this disorder/Synonyms for DCD includes motor delays, clumsiness, clumsiness -motor delay, developmental delay, gross motor and fine motor developmental delay, developmental apraxia, disorder of attention and motor perception, developmental dyspraxia, perceptuo-motor dysfunction, motor learning difficulty and sensorimotor dysfunction (Gibbs, Appleton and Appleton, 2007).
The original Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (Bruiniks, 1978) was revised in 2005 to the Bruininks-Oserestsky