Fine Motor Skills in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Coordination Disorder

Abstract

The manual dexterity subtests of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, and handwriting and computerized graphomotor tasks were used to investigate motor skills of a group of 12 children (11 males, 1 female; mean age 9 years 7 months) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and 12 controls at University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands.

Keywords

• fine motor abilities
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• coordination disorder