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From Clumsy to Capable: Improving Awareness and Care for Developmental Coordination Disorder in Children
Presentation Year
2026
College or Department
College of Professional Studies
Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)
This project analyzing the effectiveness of current interventions and brings awareness to current lack of care for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. It compares current diagnosis measures like MABC,TGMD-2, Bruininks-Oseretsky Test with interventions to give background of where we are currently to streamline care for the future. Findings show that Neuromotor task training (NTT) and CO-OP interventions are most effective in improving quality of care. Results suggest for improving this problem we can educate health professionals more in the subject and improve diagnosis streamline, implement more school based additional therapies to increase access to care, and improve parents involvement in care to make sure that skills learned in clinic are have good transferability to home and school life.
Permission to Publish Work
Yes
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Primary Contact: First Name
Mallory
Primary Contact: Last Name
Akers
Primary Contact: Email
mja133@humboldt.edu
Primary Contact: I am a
Undergraduate Student
Primary Contact: Phone Number
6263904473
Indicate File Dimensions
4'x3'