Unfortunately, you may have gotten bad advice. Apraxia is, in fact, a part of autism. However, you need to do what you feel is best. In retrospect, knowing what I do now, if it were my kid, I'd take him for another workup. Bet you'd get another opinion. Not communicating/being unable to talk is very autistic-like. It takes a while to get the spectrum diagnosis. Does your child know how to socialize well with his same age peers? Good, strong eye contact? I could go on and on. At any rate, I do wish bot of you luck. Hope you're right and I'm wrong.
