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Developmental Movement Problems

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Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders

Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition ((NPCO,volume 13))

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Since the turn of the century, case histories of children who appear physically and intellectually normal yet lack the motor competence necessary to cope with the demands of everyday living have appeared in the literature (e.g. Brenner & Gillman, 1966; Dupre as cited in Ford, 1966; Gubbay, 1975; Henderson & Hall, 1982; Orton, 1937; Walton, Ellis, & Court, 1962). Recent longitudinal studies of such children have allowed us to make progress in understanding the natural history of this “condition”, demonstrating that its manifestations are not simply transitional difficulties, devoid of personal, social and educational consequences (Geuze & Borger, 1993; Losse et al., 1991). Observations such as these have encouraged the postulation of a separable disorder of movement skill acquisition, requiring aetiological, diagnostic, and remedial attention, in its own right. This stance has, in turn, been taken up and endorsed in recent editions of the influential diagnostic manuals published by the World Health Organization [WHO] (1992) and the American Psychiatric Association [APA] (1994), respectively the International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD-10) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV). The relevant entries are headed “Specific developmental disorder of motor function” (ICD-10) and “Developmental coordination disorder,” (DSM-IV). (For a historical overview of the broader context in which these entries occur see Rispens & Van Yperen, this volume).

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  1. Dept. of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80140, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare, P.O. Box 19152, 3501 DD, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Tom A. van Yperen

  3. University of London, UK

    William Yule

  4. Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF, London, UK

    William Yule

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Henderson, S.E., Barnett, A.L. (1998). Developmental Movement Problems. In: Rispens, J., van Yperen, T.A., Yule, W. (eds) Perspectives on the Classification of Specific Developmental Disorders. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2581-1_10

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