By using an AAC app, Mark is learning to tell stories. - AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star
Mark is nine and has no functional speech, though vowel sounds are starting to emerge.
Diagnosed with apraxia – a motor disorder that affects his ability to form sounds – Mark can’t say words, which means he is non-verbal.
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