Your Therapy Source Magazine for Pediatric Therapists January 2016 | Page 8
ADLs and Children with DCD
Physical Therapy published research on the
differences between 25 children with
developmental coordination disorder (DCD)
and 25 of their peers with typical
development for activities of daily living
(ADL) performance, learning, and
participation, and the predictive values of
these aspects.
All of the children’s parents completed the
DCD Daily-Q. The DCD Daily-Q is a 23 item
questionnaire regarding a child’s ability to
complete fine motor activities, self-care and
self-maintenance skills and gross motor
playing activities. It includes tasks such as
buttering a sandwich, cutting a sandwich,
pouring juice, opening a wrapper/package,
coloring a picture, writing, playing hopscotch,
jumping rope and eye hand coordination skills. The results indicated the following:
1. children with DCD showed poor performance of ADL and less frequent participation in
some ADL.
2. children with DCD demonstrated heterogeneous patterns of performance (poor in
10%–80% of the items) and learning (delayed in 0%–100% of the items).
3. children in the DCD group with delays in learning of ADL were a predictor for poor
performance of ADL, and poor performance of ADL was a predictor for less frequent
participation in ADL compared with the control group.
References:
Berdien W. Van der Linde, Jaap J. van Netten, Bert Otten, Klaas Postema, Reint H. Geuze,
and Marina M. Schoemaker. Activities of Daily Living in Children With Developmental
Coordination Disorder: Performance, Learning, and Participation. PHYS THER November
2015 95:1496-1506; published ahead of print June 4, 2015, doi:10.2522/ptj.20140211
University of Groningen. The DCD Daily Q. Retreived from the web on 12/7/15 at
http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/14048346/Chapter_4.pdf
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