These are difficulties concerning retardation in the ability to perform gestures which don't need to be learnt culturally, through explicit education, unlike those relative to dyspraxia (as for example eating with cutlery), and which normally fall into place naturally over time (for example: walking, running, jumping, following a rhythm by tapping one's feet or the fingers).

Thus, these disorders concern the realisation of gestures which involve the body as a whole.
For example, the children presenting difficulties of this kind will not be able to coordinate their arms and their legs when they swim, will run in a disjointed manner, will have difficulty balancing on one foot or walking down stairs.
Disorders in the acquisition of coordination are regularly associated, although to varying degrees, with dyslexia