Table of Contents

Section One: Introduction

1. Developmental Coordination Disorder and Its Consequences: An Introduction to the Problem (John Cairney)

Section Two: Personal, Social, Physical and Mental Health Consequences

2. Developmental Coordination Disorder and Participation (Batya Engel-Yeger)

3. DCD, Physical Activity and Physical Health: Results from the PHAST Project (John Cairney)          

4. Psychosocial and Behavioral Problems in Children with DCD (Jan P. Piek & Daniela Rigoli)

5. Neurocognitive Processing Deficits in Children with DCD (Peter H. Wilson)

Section Three: Identification and Methodological Challenges

6. Screening for Developmental Coordination Disorder in School Age Children (Marina M. Schoemaker & Brenda N. Wilson)

7. Methodological Issues in Field-Based DCD Research: Case Identification and Study Design (Scott Veldhuizen & John Cairney)

Section Four: Intervention and Reflections on the Future

8. Strategic Management of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (Cheryl Missiuna, Helene J. Polatajko & Nancy Pollock)

9. Final Reflections (John Cairney)

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"Edited by a leading researcher into DCD, Developmental Coordination Disorder and its Consequences is well written and highly readable. Many of its chapters introduce new findings, new theories, and new models of service delivery, challenging researchers to think and act differently and to push the field in new directions." -- Janice Causgrove Dunn, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta "Developmental Coordination Disorder and its Consequences is an excellent contribution to our knowledge and understanding of DCD." -- Susan Harris, Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia

About the Author

John Cairney is the McMaster Family Medicine Professor in Child Health Research and a professor in the Departments of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and Kinesiology at McMaster University.

Reviews

Developmental Coordination Disorder and its Consequences is an excellent contribution to our knowledge and understanding of DCD. - Susan Harris, Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia
Edited by a leading researcher into DCD, Developmental Coordination Disorder and its Consequences is well written and highly readable. Many of its chapters introduce new findings, new theories, and new models of service delivery, challenging researchers to think and act differently and to push the field in new directions. - Janice Causgrove Dunn, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta