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[quote=Anonymous]DS was 'diagnosed' with DCD - motor planning - a year ago (at age 4) & I still don't really understand it - even after an entire year of OT.  Have found there's a HUGE range in what it can mean & how different professionals recommend dealing with it.  We didn't ever go see a developmental pediatrician (also were told it wasn't really necessary) - but did find that functionally seeing him in OT and the progress he made in it helped me get some sense of things where he could use help (one category of issues -- things not instinctually knowing how to climb out of something vs. having to learn the body memory for it, which is neurological & people who don't have therapy for it usually learn ways to adapt but early intervention can help; second category were delays like crossing the midline/bilateral movement which he very likely would've just 'grown out of' but therapy helped gain experience faster, and category 3 seems to be fine motor); They have the kid do basic coordination activities, build strength and it helped our DS gain confidence to try more things.  At our 5 year old wellcare exam, when i talked to our regular ped - I was talking about his therapy - and asked "this is mostly like what they called 'klutzy' in the 70s, right?" and she nodded and smiled.  Overall, tho, like I said, I think I've learned in the past year that it means such a broad range of things that it is somewhat hard to generalize from anyone else's experience too much.  If you start OT with a good therapist, at least what that did for us was to translate what these scary sounding things translated to in helping him in daily life.  If he has behavior and attention issues, seems like no reason not to see a developmental pediatrician.[/quote]

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