The Consensus
Intervention
Intervention approaches should:
- Contain activities that are functional and are based
on those that are relevant to daily living and meaningful to the child,
parents, teachers and others. These should be based on accurate assessment
and aim to improve the child’s motor functions plus other attributes
such as self esteem and confidence.
- Involve the child’s wishes as key parts of the
intervention process. This will usually include identifying functional
tasks, choosing priorities, establishing targets for success and engaging
in monitoring their own progress.
- Involve a number of individuals who can contribute -
parents, teachers, health professionals, coaches and other family members – to
enhance generalization and application in the context of everyday life.
- Accommodate the contextual life of the family taking
into account family circumstances such as routines, siblings, finance,
etc.
- Be evidence-based and grounded in theories that are
applicable to understanding children with DCD. These theories should take
into account the nature of the learning process in the developing child,
the structure of the task and the environmental conditions that support
skill acquisition.
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