Autism Therapy: clumsy

There is a lot of research going on right now on how and why children move the way they do.

In this article the author comments on the review by Sugden. He notes that developmental coordination disorder (DCD), which looks like clumsiness, is very common in school-aged children. DCD also often occurs with other problems, such as autism. He states that therapists still don't truly understand how DCD looks in children with autism versus how DCD looks in children with attention deficit disorder. The review focuses on how to help these children by targeting therapies at the tasks the children want to learn to do (riding a bike). Motor control research shows that in many cases the problems come when a child cannot switch his gaze from one part of the task to the next part of the task.