Table 3.
Associations between specific communication-related comorbid conditions and childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) severity.
| Comorbidity group a | Severity group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total N | |
| Cognitive impairment | 43 | 12** | 170** | 225 |
| No cognitive impairment | 40 | 23 | 87 | 150 |
| Receptive language impairment | 44** | 24 | 205** | 273 |
| No receptive language impairment | 39 | 11 | 52 | 102 |
| Nonspeech apraxia | 18** | 11 | 119** | 148 |
| No nonspeech apraxia | 65 | 24 | 138 | 227 |
| ASD | 24 | 12 | 90 | 126 |
| No ASD | 159 | 23 | 67 | 249 |
Note. ASD = autism spectrum disorder.
The number of children with each comorbid condition who are in each severity group is reported here; see text for percentages.
p < .001 between children with CAS + listed comorbidity and children with CAS but without that comorbidity.