Abstract/Summary

Mothers of children with suspected developmental coordination disorder qualitatively report high levels of parenting stress. The parent-child relationship impacts on opportuni-ties for participation available to the child and family. This study used standardised measures to quantify maternal stress and to examine factors that may be associated with parenting stress (social support and coping child diagnosis, motor skills and sensory pro-cessing). Maternal stress was high but not associated with child motor impairment. In-stead, stress was correlated with child sensory processing problems, maternal social sup-port and coping. Mothers are at risk and concerns about the child should be considered in the context of family need.