【Background and Purpose】Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) were a heterogeneous group. Before applying intervention, we had to classify DCD children based upon motor characteristics. An appropriate training program for each subtype of children with DCD may be developed. Several research studies investigated the subtypes of the DCD population and manifested subtypes of “poor in all motor performance” and “poor in balance ability” in common. In addition, a previous study examined the subtypes of the DCD population in Taiwan with Movement ABC test and foreign norms. The aim of this study was to screen DCD children with the Taiwan norm of Movement ABC test and classify these children with Taiwan Movement Assessment test.【Method】At the first stage, the Movement ABC test with Taiwan norm was used to evaluate 1365 students aged 9-12 years old. In total, 86 children were identified as DCD. At the second stage, we used ten items of Taiwan Movement Assessment Test as variables of cluster analysis to classify the subtypes of DCD. Discriminant analysis and one-way ANOVA were used to examine the internal and external validity of cluster analysis. 【Results】The prevalence of children with DCD was 6.3% in this study using the Taiwan norm. Cluster profiles for four subtypes of DCD children were identified. Subtype one displayed deficits in general motor coordination ability. This subgroup was the most impaired group. Subtype two was poor in ball control. Subtype three experienced difficulties with the balance ability. Subtype four displayed least deficits in all movement items and were good in ball control.【Conclusion】This study proved the subtypes of “poor in all motor performance” and “poor in balance ability”. Our study had three subtypes with similar motor characteristics as compared with the past study which chose Movement ABC test as classified variables. The results of identifying subtypes could help us to provide appropriate interventions for these children concerning their specific deficits of motor abilities.
