{"id":3270,"date":"2020-05-03T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/?page_id=3270"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:10:30","slug":"what-are-the-symptoms-of-dcd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/what-are-the-symptoms-of-dcd\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Symptoms of DCD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motor difficulties, like attention difficulties have a pervasive effect on children\u2019s lives, affecting them at school, home and in their leisure activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children with DCD may have problems with their gross motor skills (movement or co-ordination of their arms and legs, posture and balance) or their fine motor skills (hand skills and manual dexterity) or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Gross motor difficulties include<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Difficulties riding a bike, catching or throwing a ball<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Difficulties with hopping and skipping<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frequent trips and falls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Awkward running<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bumping into people\/things, knocking things over<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Fine motor difficulties include<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poor pencil control leading to difficulties with drawing\/writing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cutting with scissors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doing up buttons and zips or using a knife and fork together<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tying shoelaces<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children with DCD may also have difficulties interacting with others, poor attention and organisation skills, poor time management skills and sensory processing difficulties.\u00a0 They are often frustrated and frequently develop low self esteem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motor difficulties, like attention difficulties have a pervasive effect on children\u2019s lives, affecting them at school, home and in their leisure activities. Children with DCD may have problems with their gross motor skills (movement or co-ordination of their arms and legs, posture and balance) or their fine motor skills (hand skills and manual dexterity) or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/what-are-the-symptoms-of-dcd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are the Symptoms of DCD?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3270\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}