Abstract
Five specific characteristics of developmental verbal dyspraxia were selected and reviewed from the research literature of the 70s, related to recent descriptive findings in adult apraxia of speech, and placed into a pattern of expectant dysfunction. Other forms of motor and linguistic breakdown that reportedly often occur along with verbal dyspraxic features are also reviewed, and speculation is offered for the integrative interrelationship between a developmental verbal dyspraxic component and other components of breakdown in the total expressive communication performance of the child.

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