Reading and Writing Difficulties in Children of Developmental Motor Coordination Disorder

Abstract

The article discusses reading/writing difficulties in children with developmental motor coordination disorder. The analysis of the problems is based on studies conducted by one of the authors in eight-person group of eight years old children of developmental coordination disorder. It presents the manner in which these disorders are characterized in the ICD-10 and ICD-11. The collected research material allowed the analysis of difficulties and the problems and errors made in reading and writing – was the multifaceted assessment of reading/writing difficulties. It indicates the main causes of problems in reading and writing, and also describes the particular course of attaining this ability and typical difficulties encountered by pupils with developmental motor coordination disorder.