Children With Developmental Coordination

The term Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is used to describe a group of children who have difficulty. with tasks involving movement such that it interferes with their daily living or academic progress. As with other developmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia, DCD is now a prominent concern of both researchers and practitioners.This text is aimed at both researchers and professionals who work in a practical manner with the condition and includes professionals in health, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, health visitors, paediatricians, and - in the educational field - teachers and others who are in daily contact with the children - their parents.The essence of the text is that work with children should be guided by research evidence driving the clinical practice which in turn raisies more questions for research. The authors in this text have both experience in research and are engaged in the day-to-day clinical work with children and bring both of these to bear in the chapters they have written.

David Sugden has an academic background in developmental psychology, special education and physical education, his PhD is from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught in primary, secondary and special schools as well as lecturing at college and university level in the UK and the USA. His specialist research interests include motor development, motor impairment, motor learning, and children with developmental disorders. His work centres on the characteristics of typically developing children and those with various forms of impairment. He is co-author of the most widely used assessment instrument for motor difficulties, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children. He is currently Professor of Special Needs in Education, University of Leeds, UK.

Contributors

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Preface

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Acknowledgements

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Chapter 1 The nature of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Mary E. Chambers, David A. Sugden and Charikleia Sinani

Chapter 2 Motor impairment in DCD and activities of daily living

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Reint H. Geuze

Chapter 3 Cognitive explanations of the planning and organization of movement

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Elisabeth L. Hill

Chapter 4 A dynamical systems perspective of Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Michael G. Wade, Dan Johnson and Kristi Mally

Chapter 5 DCD and overlapping conditions

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Dido Green and Gillian Baird

Chapter 6 Progression and development in Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Margaret Cousins and Mary M. Smyth

Chapter 7 Assessment of Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Dawne Larkin and Elizabeth Rose

Chapter 8 Early identification of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Marian J. Jongmans

Chapter 9 Assessment of handwriting in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Anna L. Barnett and Sheila E. Henderson

Chapter 10 Models of intervention: towards an eco-developmental approach

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David A. Sugden and Mary E. Chambers

Chapter 11 Neuromotor task training: a new approach to treat children with DCD

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Marina M. Schoemaker and Bouwien C.M. Smits-Engelsman

Chapter 12 A cognitive perspective on intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: the CO-OP experience

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Angie D. Mandich and Helene J. Polatajko

Chapter 13 Overlapping conditions - overlapping management: services for individuals with Developmental Coordination Disorder

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Amanda Kirby

References

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Index

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Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder

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