10 Apraxia Symptoms
Symptom #5: Developmental Speech Delay
Speech and language development are a crucial part of a child’s growth. Language and speech can impact the child’s behavior, social interactions, and academic skills. All children are expected to meet certain milestones as they grow. For example, milestones that demonstrate normal speech development are crying at birth, cooing at two to three months of age, babbling at six months, shouts for attention at ten months, and saying one to two words by the age of 12 months.
Children with apraxia often have a delayed onset of speech development along with a limited number of spoken words. These symptoms are most prominent between the ages of 18 to 24 months and should prompt medical professionals to suspect childhood apraxia of speech.
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