This study compared the skills performance of 60 children, ages 3 to 5, with speech and language delays on the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS) with that of national norms on the PDMS. It found that the children with speech and language delays performed the PDMS gross motor skills significantly lower than the norm at each age level. The PDMS fine motor skill performance of the 3- and 4-year-old children with speech and language delays was also significantly lower than the mean performance of the PDMS norming sample. The fine motor performance of the 5-year-old children with speech and language delays did not differ from the norming sample. Findings support the importance of using an assessment tool that will provide accurate information about the gross and fine motor performance of young children and support provision of appropriate intervention to children performing significantly lower than the norm. (Contains 46 references.) (DB)