Comorbidity and Severity in Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Retrospective Chart Review (vol 66, pg 791, 2023)

Children with comorbid intellectual disability (60.3%), receptive language impairment (72.8%), and nonspeech apraxia (39.2%; includes limb, nonspeech oromotor, and oculomotor apraxia) were significantly more likely to have severe CAS than children without these comorbidities. However, children with comorbid autism spectrum disorder (10.4%) were no more likely to have severe CAS than children without autism.