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Dyspraxia

Background

Dyspraxia: Developmental Co-ordination Disorder; Clumsy child syndrome; Perceptuo-Motor Dysfunction; Motor Learning Difficulty

Dyspraxia is a developmental disorder of organisation and planning of physical movement. The essential feature is the impairment of motor function that significantly interferes with academic achievement or activities of daily living, and is not due to a general medical condition, such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. Performance in daily activities that require motor co-ordination is substantially below that expected given the person's chronological age and general intelligence. This may be manifested in marked delays in achieving the main motor milestones of sitting, crawling and walking, or such problems as difficulty in self help skills, knocking over or dropping things, poor performance in sport or poor handwriting.

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Medical text written June 2001 by Dr D Keen. Last reviewed October 2005 by Dr D Keen, Consultant Paediatrician, St George's Hospital, London, UK.

 

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