ABSTRACT
Nearly a decade ago, when it became apparent that the intervention approaches which had been used in pediatric therapy were relatively ineffective with children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a number of researchers determined that it was time to develop a new frame of reference, a new way of approaching intervention with these children.1'2 In the early 1990s, Polatajko and colleagues (see parts II and III in this volume) set out to develop a new approach to the treatment of children with DCD. Ideally, therapeutic interventions are based upon our knowledge of the population of children to be served, are grounded in associated theories of disability and treatment, and are systematically tested, refined and elucidated. A series of questions, therefore, needed to be addressed.
