Social skills of verbal apraxia children?

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Our 28 month old was recently diagnosed with moderate to severe verbal

apraxia. Currently our son doesn't deal well playing with other

children his age. I am a stay-at-home mom, but we are involved in a

playgroup, library story time, and church groups so he is exposed to

other children. He has an older sister, age 5, they get along well.

When playing with older children, he does fine. Examples: Today I

helped at my daughter's preschool & my son came along. The children

played duck-duck goose and he got right in there and got along great

with these 5-year-old kids. A couple days ago at playgroup, it was

complete opposite. He was fine playing on the floor with toys, but if

a child around his age got in his space (not even taking away his toy,

just getting near him), he gets upset. He doesn't hit, he just gets

flustered and comes running to me. I know part of his frustration is

he can't vocalize, but we are trying to work with him on getting past

this point.

Has anyone else had this similar social behavior with their child

diagnosed with apraxia? I'm just trying to get a grasp if this has

anything to do with apraxia or if it's just a terrible 2 phase. Thanks

for taking the time to read.