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 Motor
disorders are difficulties with motor control.
Typical characteristics which parents may notice are:
- Increased/decreased muscle tone/changing muscle tone - difficulty
moving limbs/body.
- Co-ordination and balance difficulties - difficulty with sitting,
standing and walking.
- Manipulation problems – coordination, grasping, releasing
and poor fine motor skills.
- Communication problems – not babbling/vocalising, hard
to sustain eye contact, hard to understand their needs or wants.
- Learning difficulties – difficult to sustain attention,
lack of initiative.
- Oral motor control - difficulty with eating and feeding, swallowing
and breathing.
 Diagnoses
for children could include:
- Cerebral Palsy -
- Spastic hemiplegia
- Athetosis
- Ataxia
- Quadriplegia
- Diplegia
- Global developmental delay
- Stroke
This is not an exhaustive list – if you have a diagnosis
not listed above, but you think Conductive Education may be able
to assist you – please call the centre
for further information.
Motor disorders affecting adults in addition to the above:
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
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