Child with Incoordination Disorder

Child with Proprioceptive (muscle and joint receptors) Dysfunction:

• Poor muscle tone: either too high or too low

• deliberately runs into people, objects, jumps, dives into stuff, tackle people

• stamp or slap feet onto ground while walking, walks with a bouncing gait

• Kick his feet or heels against chair or floor, or desk

• Bang sticks or objects on wall while walking, rubs against the wall

• Rubs his hands on everything, bite or suck fingers, crack knuckles

• Likes to be touched, hugged, rough and tumble play, swaddled,

  rolled into bedding tightly

• Chews on shirt, cuffs, strings, pencils, toys, and gum a lot

• Poor motor planning, body awareness, position in space

• Holds pencils or crayons too tight or too loose

• messy eater, messy work

• Bull in a china shop

• Uses too much force, breaks objects frequently

• Poor posture, slumps, sits on edge of chair with foot for support

• Unable to balance on one foot