The most recent issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood published a research study on 8 year old children born at less than 29 weeks or less than 1000 g at birth and the prevalence of developmental coordination disorder (DCD).  Forty two percent of the children scored less than one standard deviation below the norm on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children.  Thirty percent scored more than 1.5 SD below the norm.  The best predictor of DCD was a motor score of less than 27th percentile on the Peabody Motor Scales at 3 years of age.  DCD was also associated with prolonged rupture of membranes and retinopathy of prematurity. 

Reference:  Goyen, Traci-Anne, Lui, Kei  Developmental coordination disorder in 'apparently normal' school children born extremely preterm Arch Dis Child 2008 0: adc.2007.134692

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