While we have discussed dyspraxia, we haven't gone into specifically apraxia, the difference between those two, and why understanding different types of apraxia is so important for understanding why non-speakers may seem to not understand when they actually do. Anyone working with autistic people should be at least somewhat familiar with apraxia.

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