The planning and organisation of action and activities of daily living in developmental coordination disorder

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Hill, Elisabeth L.. 2005. The planning and organisation of action and activities of daily living in developmental coordination disorder. In: David A. Sugden and M. Chambers, eds. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. London: Whurr Publishers, pp. 47-71. ISBN 978-1-86156-458-0 [Book Section]

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By the time typical children reach infant school they have in place key movement skills such as running, hopping, jumping, throwing, kicking and writing (Gallahue & Ozmun, 1995; Haywood & Getchell, 2001). While these skills will continue to be refined throughout childhood, they reveal that children possess sophisticated movement planning, organisation and execution skills even at this young age. In this chapter the potential cognitive explanations for developmental coordination disorder, a disorder in which movement skill does not develop in the typical way, will be reviewed, and, where possible, studies will be considered in terms of their parallels to activities of daily living.

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Book Section

Keywords:

developmental coordination disorder, dyspraxia, cognitive theories

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Psychology

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