Compression of Cognitive Flexibility and Adjustment of Students with Developmental Coordination Disorder and Typically Developing Students

The aim of this research was to compare cognitive flexibility and adjustment between two groups of students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing students (TDS). Fifty students with DCD and 50 TDS were chosen from 12 primary schools. The Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCD-Q), Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) were used to measure the research variables. The results of the multivariate analysis of variance (M-ANOVA) showed that the mean scores of cognitive flexibility, emotional, educational and social adjustment were significantly higher in the students with DCD (P<001). The results of multivariate regression analysis also showed that a 25 variance in cognitive flexibility and adjustment that can explain the variance of DCD in people with such a disorder (p<.001). The results of the present study provide further evidence on low cognitive flexibility and adjustment observed in students with DCD.