Early Signs of Apraxia Of Speech in Children, Pt 2

A limited phonetic diversity. What does that mean? That means they don't have a lot of consonants and at 12 they don't have a lot of consonants that they can say stuff like B, P, T, K. Those are not the vowels. The vowels are e, oo, a, o, those ones. Right? And if you see three or fewer consonants by 16 months or five or fewer by 24 months, that's also an indicator and an early sign. And you can also see like overreliance on stops and nasals meaning there talking and stops meaning the constant stops like P, T and K. Right. If they rely a lot on that and they don't have a continuous like those are F and S's or those continuous sounds are harder to produce especially for apraxic children. So therefore they rely on these stops and they might even rely on nasal sounds which are these ones. There's a limited variety in terms of these consonants.