Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs in approximately 6% of school-aged children and that affects motor skill development and acquisition. In addition to the consequences directly related to the motor disorder, cognitive difficulties have been observed in young people living with DCD, particularly in attentional and executive aspects, but no clear neurocognitive profile has yet been established. Furthermore, DCD is frequently associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, in which executive and attentional functions can also be impaired. Thus, the primary objective of this project is to exhaustively list attentional and executive profiles found in children and adolescents with a DCD, distinguishing those presenting a DCD alone from those presenting various concomitant disorders by doing a systematic review of the literature. The secondary objective is to investigate executive functioning of children and adolescents with DCD as reported by their relatives in questionnaires from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF). The results will also be distinguished according to the presence or absence of comorbid disorders in children with DCD. This project will provide a better understanding of the neurocognitive profile of children affected by DCD and the influence of various concurrent disorders, which will facilitate the identification of their needs and the optimization of clinical interventions.
