Xiao Yu is a second grade student, usually always give people a “clumsy” feeling, she hates to go to sports, because many movements, other students quickly learned, but how she practiced all feel very awkward, the movement is extremely uncoordinated, for this reason is often ridiculed by other students. She does not like language classes because she is not only slow to write, but also always crooked to write out of order, for which she is often criticized by the teacher. The homework at home is also a lot of trouble for parents, a little bit of homework, write half a day is not finished, always write and erase, erase and write. The exams were often not done because the papers were not finished and the results were very unsatisfactory. Later, during the summer vacation, her mother took her to the hospital for a checkup and after a systematic evaluation, Xiaoyu was diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder. The best time for early intervention training was missed because it was discovered too late. I wonder if there is such a “stupid child” around you: other children can lift their heads high when lying down at three or four months old, but he can’t even lift his head when lying down, even if he is pulled to sit up, he can only hold his head up for two or three seconds before he can’t support himself; other children can sit up at five or six months, but he shakes his body twice and falls down; other children can sit up at five or six months. Other children can sit up at five or six months, but he falls down after two shakes; other children can walk at a week old, but he still only holds on to things before he dares to stand; other children can hold a pen and scribble on paper, but he still can’t even hold a pen …… Are they born to be a “stupid child”? Is it? Maybe they just have a disease —– Developmental coordination disorder is a specific developmental disorder that occurs in childhood and is characterized by impaired motor coordination. The cause of this disease, consider that on the one hand, may be related to the adverse factors suffered during pregnancy such as hypoxia, resulting in the fetal brain development is affected; on the other hand, with the early after birth can not provide the baby with reasonable nutrition to promote its neurodevelopment also has a certain relationship. Since the disease is mainly characterized by impaired fine and gross motor skills, it can produce a series of abnormalities that hinder the growth and development of children, such as poor gross motor skills, uncoordinated movements, clumsy behavior, poor body awareness and postural stability, etc. Therefore, these children are often reluctant to exercise more, and less exercise may also lead to obesity and low resistance in children; while poor fine motor skills, strange penmanship, difficulty in reading, etc., can lead to poor neurological development. Poor fine motor skills, strange penmanship, and difficulty in reading can lead to poor academic performance and a series of psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, and social maladjustment, which seriously hinder the physical and mental development of children. Without timely intervention, developmental coordination disorders can persist into adolescence and young adulthood. As you can see, developmental coordination disorder is a problem that needs to be taken seriously by parents. So, how can mothers and fathers identify and correct this developmental disorder early? Generally speaking, the growth and development of infants and young children follow a pattern from top to bottom, from far to near, from coarse to fine, from low to high, from simple to complex. There is a certain coherence and consistency in the development of each movement, the mastery of the previous stage of action, the development of the next stage of action to play a catalytic role, the same, the previous stage of action development is hindered, will likely hinder the development of the next stage of action. Therefore, parents should pay more attention to the acquisition of skills at each stage of childcare, such as whether the child can hold his head up at 3 months, sit at 6 months, crawl at 9 months, walk at 12 months, and pick up things slowly from full palm grasp to pick up with fingers. If possible, you can take your baby to the child health department regularly for developmental assessment and do age-appropriate gross and fine motor training under the guidance of the health care provider. When you find that your baby is lagging far behind his peers in acquiring skills, or his movements are always uncoordinated, don’t think that it is just “stupid”, but you need to be alert and consult a professional doctor, actively cooperate with him to find the cause and correct it, so as not to affect the next stage of your baby’s motor development and minimize the negative effects. The baby’s motor development will be affected in the next stage, and the adverse effects will be minimized.