Are there any other motor skills or behaviours that a parent might notice at an early age?
Some children with DCD do not explore their environment motorically (e.g., they do not crawl over, around, behind, and through things to learn about their world). These children tend to enjoy more sedentary types of recreation and they may display very poor rhythm when listening to music – since keeping a beat, marching, and tapping along with a song involves coordination. In my clinical work with these children, I have also noticed that many of them over-estimate their motor abilities. However, once you ask them to perform a certain skill – it is apparent that they do not display proficiency in the motor activity. There are many other factors that are difficult to describe with words; however, someone trained in the area of motor development and movement proficiency can easily identify these items.
