Emerging Adulthood and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and developmental coordination disorder: Two separate disorders or do they share a common etiology.

“…However, problems with coordinated movements have shown to continue through adolescence in an estimated 50-70% of children [52] and there is also evidence of these difficulties continuing into adulthood [53,54]. Researchers have also investigated the outcomes of ADHD with DCD [7,21,40] and have found that most children maintain the motor difficulties [7,40], despite the difficulties becoming less clinically evident with time [3].…”

A review of five tests to identify motor coordination difficulties in young adults

“…Consequently, sport-related skills may not be as problematic as many daily self-care skills. Emerging research has identified that adults with DCD, experience particular difficulties in self-care, hand writing skills and driving a car (Kirby et al, 2008(Kirby et al, , 2011aKirby, Sudgen, & Edwards, 2011b). Daily living activities such as putting on makeup, shaving, ironing, using tools, dealing with locks and keys, driving a car, reading maps, and food preparation may be more important for assessment than cleaning teeth, tying shoe laces and buttering bread which are assessed among younger populations (Kirby, Sugden, & Edwards, 2011).…”

Development Coordination Disorder in Children A Parent and Teacher Guide for Early Identification (Literature Review)

“…There has been an enormous increase in the number of studies evaluating the overlap of development syndromes or disorders in children and adults Results from different studies (Pitcher et al, 2003;Kaplan et al, 1997;Rasta and Eliot 1999) have shown an overlap of DCD with other neurodevelopment disorders and an overlap with other conditions have recently been published (Green and Baird 2005;Adib et al, 2005). Two studies from Kirby et al (2005); O'Hare and Khalid (2002), have both shown an association between motor difficulties and joint hypermobility syndrome while Green et al (2002) in their study highlighted the widespread prevalence of motor impairment in developmental disorders.…”