RT Book, Section A1 Anderson, Deborah A2 Effgen, Susan K. A2 Fiss, Alyssa LaForme SR Print(0) ID 1187762929 T1 Case Study: Developmental Coordination Disorder T2 Meeting the Physical Therapy Needs of Children, Third Edition YR 2021 FD 2021 PB F. A. Davis Company PP New York, NY SN 9780803697287 LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1187762929 RD 2024/03/29 AB Children who have developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have previously been given a wide variety of diagnoses, including but not limited to developmental dyspraxia, motor impaired, clumsy child syndrome, perceptual motor difficulties, and sensory integrative dysfunction (Baxter, 2012; Blank, Smits-Engelsman, Polatajko, & Wilson, 2012; Sugden & Chambers, 2005). Over the past several years, physicians, therapists, and school personnel have identified common characteristics that apply to most of these children. Common characteristics include but are not limited to low muscle tone, balance deficits, awkward running pattern, difficulty following two- to three-step motor commands, learning difficulties, poor interactive play skills, perceptual deficits, slower response time, and decreased fitness levels (Barnett, Hill, Kirby, & Sugden, 2015; Blank et al., 2012; Blank et al., 2019; Cairney, Hay, Veldhuizen, & Faught, 2011; Cignetti et al., 2018; Dannemiller, Mueller, Leitner, Iverson, Parker, & Kaplan, 2020). The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) identifies a diagnostic category of DCD for children who meet the following qualifying conditions: (1) marked impairment in development of motor coordination; (2) impairment that interferes with academic achievement or activities of daily living (ADLs); (3) coordination difficulties that are not due to a general medical condition or pervasive developmental disorder; and (4) if mental retardation is present, the motor difficulties are in excess of those usually associated with it (APA, 2013). ICD-10-CM codes were updated in 2018. The code for DCD is now F82 and the condition is located under the category “Specific Developmental Disorder of Motor Function” (ICD-10Data.com, 2018).