“The system is a bit broken…” a qualitative exploration of barriers in the pathway for diagnosing Developmental Coordination Disorder

• Lucy H. Eddy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lucy.eddy@northumbria.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-1944

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• Nat K. Merrick,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Cara E. Staniforth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health and Social Care Research, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Jade L. Jukes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Liam J. B. Hill,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

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• Mark Mon-Williams,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Born In Bradford’s Centre for Applied Education Research, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Care, University of South-Eastern Norway, Notodden, Norway

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• Farid Bardid,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom, Department of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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• Rebecca Murray

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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