Jargon explained

Sorry! Since most of you are not OTs, to make sense of what I wrote below: Dyspraxia is a disorder of the execution of skilled, learned movements and tasks, which cannot be accounted for by muscle weakness, sensory loss, poor comprehension or inattention. Ideational dyspraxia means that the concept of the action related to the object is impaired. So a patient may stare at a toothbrush, and not have the concept of the toothbrushing action. Ideomotor dyspraxia is a disorder in the initiation and execution of planned sequences of movement. So the patient may stare at the toothbrush and know the concept of toothbrushing in their head, but is unable to initiate the actions needed to achieve the goal of brushing their teeth.