Children with developmental coordination disorders (may also be called developmental dyspraxia) are often characterized as being "clumsy" or "awkward." Children with this diagnosis have difficulties with motor coordination as compared to other children of the same age. These children have difficulties in mastering gross motor coordination tasks such as crawling, walking, jumping, standing on one foot, or catching a ball, and may also have difficulty with fine motor coordination tasks such as writing or tying shoelaces.