AbstractDevelopmental coordination disorder (DCD) is of-ten called a motor learning deficit. The question addressed in this paper is whether improvement of motor skills is just a matter of mere practice. Without any kind of intervention, children with DCD do not improve their motor skills general-ly, whereas they improve after task-oriented intervention. Merely offering children the opportunity to practice motor skills, for instance by playing active video games, did lead to improved motor performance according to recent research findings, but to a lesser extent than task-oriented intervention. We argue that children with DCD lack the required motor problem-solving skills necessary to further improve their per-formance. Explicit motor teachingwith an emphasis on devel-oping these problem-solving skills is a necessary ingredient of intervention in DCD, leveraging the effectiveness of interven-tion above that of mere practicing.
Keywords Developmental coordination disorder.DCD. Motor learning deficit.Interventio .Problemsolving. Serious gaming