ABSTRACT
Traditionally, discussion of dyspraxia has centred around disruptions to volitional limb movement, whether this has been in response to instructions to (re)produce arbitrary, meaningless postures; meaningful, conventional gestures; or in handling objects. For many, gestural dyspraxias are the only true dyspraxias, the others being seen as disturbances due to other reasons, such as dysfunction in other aspects involved in motor planning (for example, visual-perceptual), defects in different symbol systems (for example, linguistic), or in other motor systems (such as ocular-motor or extrapyramidal).
