The effectiveness of the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ) as a screening tool was investigated in an Australian sample. Using the DCDQ, 129 children aged 9 to 12 years old were screened for Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), with a follow-up assessment of movement ability using the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development (MAND) as the criterion measure. The overall decision agreement between the two measures in identifying DCD was .64. The DCDQ had a sensitivity of .55 and a specificity of .74. The low sensitivity suggests that many children with DCD are not being identified by the DCDQ despite the inclusion of children with a suspect score on the DCDQ. As a screening tool, the DCDQ was accurate in identifying children with moderate or severe DCD but identified less than half of the children with mild DCD
