Clumsiness

Clumsiness can affect between 40 to 70 per cent of people with learning difficulties to some degree. Clumsiness, poor spatial awareness and poor coordination are often seen together because these problems are associated with problems in controlling physical movement in general. Severe difficulties are often referred to as dyspraxia or Developmental Coordination Disorder (or DCD for short).

People who are clumsy may also have difficulties with manual skills e.g. catching, handwriting and handwriting. They are also likely have a tendency to bump into things and knock things over.

Because the cerebellum is specifically involved in developing movement and coordination skills these difficulties are usually directly linked to poor cerebellum efficiency. Improving cerebellum efficiency leads directly and indirectly to improve these skills hence these are often the first skills that we see improvement in.

Showing signs of clumsiness?