Abstract
This study reports the relationship between delayed motor development in a large sample of three and five year olds and intelligence and reading problems in the children as seven year olds. More than half (52 %) of those with delayed motor development at age three and 37.9 % of those who were motor delayed at age five had either low intelligence or reading difficulties at age seven. Of those delayed in motor development at both three and five, 64.7 % had a low intelligence or reading difficulties at age seven. The results were interpreted as showing the predictive significance of early motor delays for later low intelligence and reading difficulties.