Developmental language disorder (DLD) is diagnosed when there is a failure of normal
language development in a child with normal nonverbal intelligence. The discussion
about additional or causal deficits is controversial. In this study a computer-based
motor performance series with a tapping, aiming and pegboard movement task and an
additional paper-pencil handedness test were applied to a group of children with DLD
of the phonologic-syntactic subtype and with normal nonverbal intelligence to describe
the additional motor problems. Furthermore we examined whether our DLD children showed
a different handedness. Tapping and pegboard with both hands were significantly impaired
in our DLD children. Overall our DLD children did not show a different handedness
than the control group.
Motor performance - Developmental language deficit - Handedness
