Introduction
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a marked impairment in the development of motor coordination, which is unrelated to any general medical condition or mental retardation [8]. The DSM-IV defines four diagnostic criteria that comprise DCD; with the first being “Performance in daily activities that require motor coordination is substantially below that expected given the person's chronological age and measured intelligence”[29]. Research has found that children with DCD experience difficulties in Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) such as basic self-maintenance activities including dressing, personal hygiene and eating [22]. Children with DCD report concerns with daily self-care tasks and leisure activities whereas parents and teachers are concerned with specific activities and/or school behaviour for example, handwriting [9]. This essay will discuss how human learning styles could be considered to improve capabilities in ADL’s and therefore decrease DCD.

Figure 1. International Classification of Function Framework [27]. Demonstrating how those with neurological disorders experience interference with their ADLs.

Procedural learning
Procedural learning is the knowledge of the …show more content…
Snapp-Childs et al [20] used sensorimotor paradigms with the aim to increase motor performance. Children with DCD were initially less successful than a control group, however following a training period; they showed similar motor capabilities to the control group. This infers that children with DCD have the potential to learn complex motor skills through kinaesthetic learning, which cannot yet be said for procedural learning. It additionally informs us that when developing kinaesthetic interventions, the appropriate learning assistance of controlled support should be