Slowness to walk

One of the five slownesses. Slowness of children in learning to walk. Children normally learn to walk soon after they have learned to stand. A child that has not learned to walk by the age of two to three is said to suffer from slowness to walk. Slowness to walk is attributable to the same causes and treated in the same way as slowness to stand. In modern clinical practice, slowness to walk is a prompt for tests to identify possible infantile paralysis, myodystrophy, or bone damage from external injury.