ABA therapy for Verbal Apraxia?

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My 3 1/2 year old son was diagnosed with Autism at age 2 and is

receiving intensive (35 hrs/week) of ABA therapy. His SLP (that we

found on our own through the hospital) is CONVINCED that he has Verbal

Apraxia with motor planning issues, NOT Autism. The more we learn, we

think that she is right.

Can ABA therapy help a child with Apraxia? Can it hurt?

The ABA therapy is almost entirely funded by insurance and the state.

But we can't get them to cover ANY speech therapy. We're considering

paying our SLP out of pocket, but to do so, we have to forfeit all of

his ABA funding.

HELP! anybody with experience with ABA treatment used for Apraxia or

strategies to get Speech Therapy covered in the state of Wisconsin -

please reply.