Evidence based approaches to screening, assessing and treating upper limb apraxia

Evidence based approaches to screening, assessing and treating upper limb apraxia

Date: Mon 19th Oct 2026

Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm - Sydney, Australia (AEDT), 8:00am - 9:00am (UK time)

Cost: Free

Presenter: Will Chegwidden

Will trained as an Occupational Therapist at Curtin University in Western Australia but has been working in the United Kingdom since 1998. Currently he is a Deputy Head of Therapies as King's College Hospital London where he leads an interdisciplinary acute neurorehabilitation service. Prior to this he was the Principal Occupational Therapist at the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre and also worked on the Upper Limb Programme at Queen Square at University College Hospital London. He holds an MSc in Cognitive Rehabilitation from the University of Westminster where his dissertation focussed on occupational therapy approaches to screening, assessing and treating limb apraxia.

Description:

In this presentation, Will Chegwidden will explore some of the challenges and controversies around identifying, diagnosing and describing the upper limb apraxia syndrome including considering the clinical utility of traditional methods of defining and naming limb apraxia and will present an alternative model that has gained more popularity in clinical and academic settings. He will present a synopsis of approaches to screening and assessment and the key tools available, exploring both impairment-based and activity-based approaches. He will then give an overview of approaches to treating upper limb apraxia with a focus on the functional approach described by Van Heugten and colleagues, and will finish with some of the early research of emerging approaches and technologies in treating limb apraxia.

Learning objectives:

• Identify the key clinical features of the upper limb apraxia syndrome and be able to reflect on the most clinically useful ways of naming and describing components of the limb apraxia syndrome.

• Reflect on the factors that would influence how to select tools and approaches to both screening and assessment of limb apraxia for their clinical practice setting

• Understand the key principles of evidence-based approaches to limb apraxia, focussing on implementable strategies 

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