Assessment Battery for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (ABCD): Preliminary report of tool development and clinical application

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PURPOSE: Development of an easy to use tool for the assessment of Developmental Coordination Disorder that is applicable to Indian children. METHODS: The steps for instrument development were followed stringently. In order to ensure the robustness of the tool, psychometric properties were determined with 127 children attending various schools. The Winsteps program was used to analyze data for a Rasch model analysis. RESULTS: The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy (KMO) analysis showed an acceptable limit. The real item separation reliability of 4.84 demonstrates that the items of this tool create a well-defined variable. CONCLUSION: This study met the objectives that it attempted to. The final tool consists of two versions- the Assessment Battery for Children with coordination Disorder-Short Version (ABCD-SV) consisting of 12 items, and the ABCD-FV consisting of 20 items. ABCD fulfills criterion A and B of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD).

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Raja, K., Girish, S., Gupta, S., Mathew, J., & Ganasan, V. (2018). Assessment Battery for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (ABCD): Preliminary report of tool development and clinical application. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 11(3), 175–185. https://doi.org/10.3233/PRM-170441

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