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Motors Skills Disorder Overview

Motor skills disorder, also called motor coordination disorder or motor dyspraxia, is a common disorder of childhood. It is estimated to be present in about 6% of school age children (between ages 5 and 11 yrs).

• Children with this disorder have associated problems including difficulty in processing visuospatial information needed to guide their motor actions they may not be able to recall or plan complex motor activities such as:
  
  
  • dancing,
  • doing gymnastics,
  • catching or throwing a ball with accuracy, or
  • producing fluent legible handwriting.
    
• Often there is a history of early delay in the development of motor skills. This may present as a delay in the ability to sit up or learning to walk well.
• Often, these children are described as clumsy or forgetful, (for example, they may never turn the water faucet...

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