etiology of DCD is part of the continuum of cerebral palsy; is secondary to prenatal, perinatal, or neonatal insult3; or is secondary to neuronal damage at the cellular level in the neurotransmitter or receptor systems. Hadders-Algra based her view that DCD is a result of damage at the cellular level on evidence that cerebral palsy is often caused by prenatal damage that cannot be identified by current diagnostic techniques