The effect of a motor skills training program in the improvement of practiced and non-practiced tasks performance in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD)

•Task specific training lead to improvements in the tasks practiced.•Children with DCD improved after an 8-week group-based training on gross motor coordination and physical ability.•The DCD group also improved on non-trained tasks including fine motor and handwriting.•Children with DCD enjoyed participating in the training program over the entire period of the intervention.